Good coronavirus news from the fourth week of lockdown

Half a million people have recovered

Nearly a quarter of all people who have been confirmed as having coronavirus have recovered. That’s according to World O Meter, which reports almost 2.2 million cases worldwide, of which, it says, around 557,000 have recovered. What’s more, it adds, of the 1.5 million cases still active, 96 per cent are mild. Meanwhile, new cases of Covid-19 continue to fall in some of the hardest hit counties.