Coronavirus Disease 2019 or Covid-19’s Best Recovery Rate So Far

We owe the recovery rate to the brave and tireless FRONTLINERS.

As we follow the number of infected Coronavirus Disease 2019 or Covid-19 cases worldwide, we can’t help but to be bombarded with numbers of reported cases and the fatality rate for the day. Quite rarely do we shift our focus to the rate of recovery from this widespread pandemic. In this blog post, rather than dwell on the misery of newly infected cases and the death toll, we have extrapolated numbers from Worldometers (Last updated: April 25, 2020, 10:20 GMT) and attempt to quantify which countries have emerged to be the champion of healing the sick back to health.

At the point of tabulating the data, these were the number of cases and recoveries:

Coronavirus Cases: 2,843,594
Deaths: 197,770 (6.94%)
Recovered: 809,935 (28.48%)

Just some caveat before we go on. These numbers were wholly extracted from only Worldometers and not cross referenced with statistics from other sources. This is done to preserve the simplicity of the presentation and also to ensure we reach an overview fairly quickly because the numbers change rather rapidly.

We’d like to credit Worldometers for the original data for this blog post. From the invaluable data, we have tabulated the numbers by sorting it based on percentages of recovery against the number of cases reported.

Above 50,000 Cases

From countries with more than 50,000 reported infected cases, the best recovery rate are:

No.	Country	% of Recovery	No. of Recovery	No. of Reported Cases
1	Germany	70.81%	109,800	155,054
2	Spain	42.02%	92,355	219,764
3	Italy	31.35%	60,498	192,994
4	France	27.21%	43,493	159,828
5	Turkey	20.72%	21,737	104,912
6	USA	11.93%	110,432	925,758

30,000-50,000 Cases

From countries with 30,000 to 50,000 reported infected cases, the best recovery rate are:

No.	Country	% of Recovery	No. of Recovery	No. of Reported Cases
1	China	93.39%	77,346	82,816
2	Iran	75.51%	66,599	88,194
3	Brazil	51.17%	27,655	54,043
4	Canada	35.25%	15,469	43,888
5	Belgium	22.98%	10,417	45,325
6	Russia	8.38%	6,250	74,588

10,000-30,000 Cases

From countries with 10,000 to 30,000 reported infected cases, the best recovery rate are:

No.	Country	% of Recovery	No. of Recovery	No. of Reported Cases
1	S. Korea	80.57%	8,635	10,718
2	Austria	79.90%	12,103	15,154
3	Switzerland	73.23%	21,000	28,677
4	Mexico	55.54%	7,149	12,872
5	Chile	51.41%	6,327	12,306
6	Ireland	50.78%	9,233	18,184
7	Israel	40.66%	6,159	15,148
8	Peru	34.63%	7,496	21,648
9	Romania	27.17%	2,890	10,635
10	Pakistan	23.07%	2,755	11,940
11	India	22.41%	5,498	24,530
12	Poland	19.21%	2,126	11,067
13	Saudi Arabia	13.57%	2,049	15,102
14	Japan	11.93%	1,530	12,829
15	Singapore	7.53%	956	12,693
16	Ecuador	6.01%	1,366	22,719
17	Sweden	5.72%	1,005	17,567
18	Portugal	5.39%	1,228	22,797

2,000-10,000 Cases

From countries with 2,000 to 10,000 reported infected cases, the best recovery rate are:

No.	Country	% of Recovery	No. of Recovery	No. of Reported Cases
1	Thailand	87.62%	2,547	2,907
2	Luxembourg	81.38%	3,007	3,695
3	Australia	80.24%	5,372	6,695
4	Denmark	67.31%	5,526	8,210
5	Malaysia	65.52%	3,762	5,742
6	Finland	56.88%	2,500	4,395
7	Croatia	48.88%	982	2,009
8	Algeria	45.03%	1,408	3,127
9	Bahrain	44.20%	1,113	2,518
10	South Africa	34.91%	1,473	4,220
11	Czechia	32.85%	2,389	7,273
12	Argentina	27.06%	976	3,607
13	Moldova	26.53%	825	3,110
14	Egypt	26.27%	1,075	4,092
15	Kuwait	25.10%	656	2,614
16	Kazakhstan	24.91%	629	2,525
17	Greece	23.17%	577	2,490
18	Colombia	20.55%	1,003	4,881
19	UAE	18.96%	1,760	9,281
20	Hungary	18.75%	458	2,443
21	Belarus	16.40%	1,573	9,590
22	Serbia	14.62%	1,094	7,483
23	Dominican Republic	13.27%	763	5,749
24	Morocco	12.81%	498	3,889
25	Indonesia	12.11%	1,042	8,607
26	Philippines	10.86%	792	7,294
27	Ukraine	9.62%	782	8,125
28	Qatar	9.49%	809	8,525
29	Panama	5.98%	319	5,338
30	Bangladesh	2.24%	112	4,998
31	Norway	0.43%	32	7,463

Below 2,000 Cases

From countries with less than 2,000 reported infected cases including the two cruise ships of Diamond Princess and MS Zaandam, the best recovery rate are:

No.	Country	% of Recovery	No. of Recovery	No. of Reported Cases
1	Saint Lucia	100.00%	15	15
2	Greenland	100.00%	11	11
3	St. Barth	100.00%	6	6
4	Yemen	100.00%	1	1
5	Gibraltar	98.50%	131	133
6	Cambodia	95.90%	117	122
7	Faeroe Islands	95.19%	178	187
8	New Caledonia	94.44%	17	18
9	Diamond Princess	90.59%	645	712
10	Brunei	86.96%	120	138
11	Iceland	86.19%	1,542	1,789
12	Mauritius	86.10%	285	331
13	Mauritania	85.71%	6	7
14	Falkland Islands	84.62%	11	13
15	Western Sahara	83.33%	5	6
16	Vietnam	81.48%	220	270
17	Gambia	80.00%	8	10
18	French Guiana	78.38%	87	111
19	New Zealand	76.52%	1,118	1,461
20	Isle of Man	74.68%	230	308
21	Jordan	73.92%	326	441
22	Réunion	72.82%	300	412
23	Hong Kong	72.54%	753	1,038
24	French Polynesia	71.93%	41	57
25	Iraq	70.49%	1,204	1,708
26	Suriname	70.00%	7	10
27	Aruba	69.00%	69	100
28	Curaçao	68.75%	11	16
29	Liechtenstein	67.90%	55	81
30	Burkina Faso	67.57%	425	629
31	Togo	65.56%	59	90
32	Uruguay	65.54%	369	563
33	Taiwan	64.10%	275	429
34	Nicaragua	63.64%	7	11
35	Azerbaijan	63.63%	1,013	1,592
36	Saint Martin	63.16%	24	38
37	CAR	62.50%	10	16
38	Dominica	62.50%	10	16
39	Uganda	61.33%	46	75
40	Macao	60.00%	27	45
41	British Virgin Islands	60.00%	3	5
42	Albania	56.60%	403	712
43	Channel Islands	56.41%	295	523
44	Fiji	55.56%	10	18
45	Guadeloupe	55.03%	82	149
46	Seychelles	54.55%	6	11
47	Kyrgyzstan	51.88%	345	665
48	Madagascar	50.00%	61	122
49	Benin	50.00%	27	54
50	Malta	49.89%	223	447
51	Rwanda	49.43%	87	176
52	Senegal	48.07%	262	545
53	Armenia	47.88%	803	1,677
54	Andorra	47.06%	344	731
55	Cameroon	46.71%	668	1,430
56	Grenada	46.67%	7	15
57	Antigua and Barbuda	45.83%	11	24
58	Martinique	45.29%	77	170
59	Zambia	44.05%	37	84
60	Namibia	43.75%	7	16
61	Monaco	43.62%	41	94
62	Bhutan	42.86%	3	7
63	Niger	42.44%	289	681
64	Trinidad and Tobago	41.74%	48	115
65	Venezuela	41.51%	132	318
66	Mayotte	40.68%	144	354
67	Barbados	40.26%	31	77
68	Bermuda	39.39%	39	99
69	Ivory Coast	38.90%	419	1,077
70	Montenegro	38.56%	123	319
71	Bosnia and Herzegovina	37.86%	538	1,421
72	Uzbekistan	36.98%	679	1,836
73	Laos	36.84%	7	19
74	Burundi	36.36%	4	11
75	Turks and Caicos	36.36%	4	11
76	St. Vincent Grenadines	35.71%	5	14
77	Paraguay	34.98%	78	223
78	Anguilla	33.33%	1	3
79	Latvia	33.21%	267	804
80	Djibouti	33.03%	330	999
81	Cuba	32.37%	416	1,285
82	Lithuania	32.26%	460	1,426
83	Costa Rica	31.44%	216	687
84	Sint Maarten	30.14%	22	73
85	Libya	29.51%	18	61
86	Georgia	28.95%	132	456
87	Eritrea	28.21%	11	39
88	Slovakia	28.11%	386	1,373
89	Kenya	27.98%	94	336
90	Eswatini	27.78%	10	36
91	Belize	27.78%	5	18
92	Sri Lanka	27.62%	116	420
93	El Salvador	27.37%	75	274
94	Mali	26.77%	87	325
95	North Macedonia	25.41%	337	1,326
96	Mongolia	24.32%	9	37
97	Angola	24.00%	6	25
98	Nepal	22.45%	11	49
99	Vatican City	22.22%	2	9
100	Liberia	21.37%	25	117
101	Ethiopia	21.37%	25	117
102	Tunisia	21.04%	194	922
103	Bahamas	20.55%	15	73
104	Lebanon	20.31%	143	704
105	Guinea	20.02%	191	954
106	Chad	20.00%	8	40
107	Palestine	19.01%	92	484
108	Nigeria	19.00%	208	1,095
109	Mozambique	18.46%	12	65
110	Montserrat	18.18%	2	11
111	Oman	17.27%	329	1,905
112	Guyana	16.44%	12	73
113	Tanzania	16.05%	48	299
114	Bulgaria	15.96%	197	1,234
115	Slovenia	15.78%	219	1,388
116	Gabon	15.12%	26	172
117	Syria	14.29%	6	42
118	Estonia	13.94%	228	1,635
119	Saint Kitts and Nevis	13.33%	2	15
120	Afghanistan	12.85%	188	1,463
121	San Marino	12.48%	64	513
122	Maldives	12.40%	16	129
123	Sierra Leone	12.20%	10	82
124	Cyprus	12.19%	98	804
125	Malawi	12.12%	4	33
126	DRC	11.78%	49	416
127	Cayman Islands	11.43%	8	70
128	Ghana	10.48%	134	1,279
129	Honduras	9.81%	58	591
130	Jamaica	9.72%	28	288
131	Congo	9.50%	19	200
132	Haiti	8.33%	6	72
133	Timor-Leste	8.33%	2	24
134	Sudan	8.05%	14	174
135	Guatemala	6.98%	30	430
136	Zimbabwe	6.90%	2	29
137	Bolivia	6.69%	54	807
138	Myanmar	6.25%	9	144
139	Guinea-Bissau	5.77%	3	52
140	Equatorial Guinea	3.27%	7	214
141	Somalia	2.44%	8	328
142	Cabo Verde	1.14%	1	88
143	Botswana	0.00%		22
144	MS Zaandam	0.00%		9
145	Papua New Guinea	0.00%		8
146	Caribbean Netherlands	0.00%		5
147	South Sudan	0.00%		5
148	Sao Tome and Principe	0.00%		4
149	Saint Pierre Miquelon	0.00%		1

Taking into account of the present, we must also not forget that as the frontliners battle to rescue the infected patients, we must remind ourselves that more important are the lives of those who are still surviving, of those recovering from this virus of the century because ultimately, they will live to tell us what had really gone on when they were down with Covid-19.

Bravo FRONTLINERS!

p/s: If you intend to use this data for professional purposes especially in cases involving charges for liability and compensation, you should seek official advisory from qualified authorities. Further analysis for your use must come from bodies with a higher knowledge in the field of medical science, statistics, data science, law and others as necessary.

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