This is how many people have survived coronavirus - and the recovery rate explained

The UK government has announced that the country has moved from the "containment" phase of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, to the "delay" stage.

Businesses across the world are feeling financial strain, with everything from international conferences, flights, shops, hotels, and Broadway shows being closed or cancelled.

The worst wave of the Covid-19 strain of coronavirus is predicted to hit the UK within the next two weeks. As the number of confirmed cases continues to rise, what is the recovery rate of Covid-19 and how many people have fully recovered?

18 people recovered in the UK

As of Friday 13 March, there have been 596 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the UK, but health officials have said they believe the actual number of people infected could be between 5,000 and 10,000.

Ten people have now died in the UK from the disease that broke out in China last November, but at least 18 people have fully recovered from the virus.

According to the Johns Hopkins University Centre for Systems Science and Engineering, more than 126,000 people globally have now been confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus, out of whom 67,000 have recovered, and more than 4,600 have died.