Australian health officials plan to update a daily coronavirus recovery tally to raise hopes that 'most people who get this disease do recover' | michaelfowler08
Australian health officials are publishing a national coronavirus recovery tally for the first time in over a month.
At 3pm on Sunday, 2315 of 5687 confirmed coronavirus cases in Australia had recovered. As of 3pm Monday recoveries grew by 117 to 2432 - about 40 per cent of the total 5974 cases - while 39 people had died. "And so during these last few weeks we haven’t concentrated on that but ... we will be reporting that on a daily basis from now on.”Other cases are generally defined as recovered if they have been symptom-free for 72 hours and 10 days have passed since their first symptoms.
Last week a Health Department spokeswoman said the federal government did not collate recovery figures from jurisdictions, who each "have different methods of reporting on recovered cases". “I think it’s encouraging to show that people largely have mild disease, that the vast majority will recover,” he said.“It’s not easy to have an across-the-board definition and it’s not the same in every country, and so those numbers have been a little bit difficult to track in some respects.”
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