More than 1 million people around the world have recovered from the coronavirus

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• As of early Friday, Worldometers and Johns Hopkins University, two leading coronavirus trackers, had recorded more than one million recoveries around the world.
• Despite the recoveries, there remain more than 2 million active coronavirus cases. Most of those cases are mild.
• More than 233,000 people around the world have also died after contracting the COVID-19 disease.
• Some recovered patients have a residual cough or fatigue even after major symptoms disappear — and, in a few cases, damaged lungs.
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More than one million people around the world have now recovered from the novel coronavirus, according to two trackers.

As of Friday morning, Worldometer tracked 1,048,430 recoveries, while Johns Hopkins University recorded 1,1015,183.

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