Is there any good news in the COVID-19 Coronavirus data? Everyone is familiar with the tragic growing number cases and fatalities globally and in most countries that have high populations. However, several countries have increasing recovery rates. You can click here to view the new Power BI report shown in the image below.
The experts keep taking about looking for “the peak”, when the number of people recovering from infection increases faster than new cases. We’re not there yet but where is the recovery rate increasing? The “Recovery Rate (3 Day Change)” measure is the Recovery Rate (e.g. The number of confirmed cases divided by the number of recovered cases) from three days prior to the most recent report date. This report ranks countries by this measure.
On the left side are the countries highest ranked in improved recovery rates over the past three days (pictured as of April 10). The line chat on the right shows the top 20 countries with their trend of Recovery Rates over the past 30 days.
Among these are countries with small populations or those with a small number of confirmed COVID cases, so even a small number of recovered cases yields a high ratio. To remove some of these outliers, the report page only includes countries with 100 or more cases. Some could have had a high infect rate that has since slowed or it could be a lag in the available recovery date. This report uses the dataset from the main COVID-19 Daily Updates report but just focuses on recover rates.
By the time you read this, the top 15 countries by improved recovery rates may change. Right now, these countries have the highest increase in recovery rates. Why is this and what can we learn from these results?
- Djibouti
- Algeria
- South Africa
- Guatemala
- El Salvador
- Austria
- Australia
- Germany
- Cambodia
- Azerbaijan
- Brunei
- Iraq
- Venezuela
- Iceland