May 3, 2020
The hard work done by health care workers and determination of the affected people has paid off in many cases of coronavirus infections, as more than one million people including 175,000 Americans have recovered from the deadly COVID-19 disease.
The numbers come even as the virus continues to pose a challenge to health care systems and world political leaders to limit the loss of life and contain the epidemic, now virtually sweeping around the globe.
A number of health care workers including doctors, nurses and assisting staff have lost their lives on the front lines of the battle against the virus but the exact number of health care workers is not known. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the diseased had sickened around 9,300 U.S. health care workers., and 27 had died by mid April.
Meanwhile, researcher are racing against time to discover a vaccine and effective treatment of the highly infectious disease that has brought world economy to a standstill in many key sectors of growth.
A Saturday evening update by Johns Hopkins University said 1,093,112 people had recovered from the coronavirus infection. In the United States, 175,382 people have recovered from the infectious disease, followed by 129,000 recovered in Germany, 117,248 in Spain 79,914 recovered in Italy and 78,586 in China, the origin of the virus.
The total number of confirmed infected cases around the world at 3,427,343.
The United States has the highest number of infections at 1,132,539 followed by Spain 216,582, Italy 209,328, the United Kingdom 183,500, France 168,518, Germany 164,967, Turkey 124,375, Russia 124,054, Brazil 97,100 and Iran 96,448.
The pandemic has claimed 243,808 lives globally. 243,808. The United States has seen 65,841 deaths, followed by Italy 28,710 deaths, the United Kingdom 28,131 deaths, Spain 25,100 deaths, and France 24,729 deaths.
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