More than two-thirds of the over 58 million people infected by COVID-19 across the world have recovered from the disease after treatment.
The figure indicates the level of success countries and health professionals have recorded in containing the virus.
As of Monday morning, over 40 million recoveries have been recorded by worldometer.info, a coronavirus tracking platform.
According to the data, 40,765,521 patients won their battle against the disease.
Although people who recover from a viral infection often develop immunity against the same disease, it remains unclear whether this is the case with COVID-19 infection.
The World Health Organization had said that one-time infection of the coronavirus has not yet been proven to result in immunity.
Despite increased recoveries, the death toll has remained high.
COVID-19, the potentially dangerous pneumonia-like disease caused by the coronavirus and said to have emanated from a local Wuhan market to spread to over 200 countries, has also claimed almost 1.4 million lives.
That has exceeded the 290,000 to 650,000 annual deaths linked to influenza.