Stresses are high right now as coronavirus dominates the news across the globe.

However, there are still reasons to stay optimistic as medical discoveries and recoveries are happening each day to fight Covid-19.

If you need to kick the anxiety, read on to see some positive news about coronavirus.

1. China shuts all temporary coronavirus hospitals

Last week, China shut down the last of 16 temporary hospitals to treat coronavirus patients, it has been reported.

On Monday, China’s National Health Commission had confirmed 16 new confirmed cases and 14 deaths in 24 hours.

The total number of patients in the country is now at 80,860 with more than 67,000 patients recovered.

When the last temporary hospital in Wuhan closed, medics were so excited that they did this… #coronavirus #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/OqK9la1xV2 — China Xinhua News (@XHNews) March 12, 2020

A Wicklow man who has been living in China for the past 18 years has said things are getting back to normal after six weeks of full lockdown.

‘Life is getting back to normal, apart from schools/universities which are still off for another couple of weeks I think,’ Karl Long said.

‘If they can do it here with about 1,000 people living in some apartment blocks I’d say Ireland will be able to manage it no bother,’ he assured his fellow Greystonians on Facebook.

‘Well worth the lockdown I’d say, and it flew by.’

2. A state in India has found success in treating coronavirus patients with a combination of two anti-HIV drugs:

A combination of two anti-HIV drugs has proved successful in treating coronavirus cases in India, according to a senior official of the Rajasthan government.

Additional Chief Secretary (Medical and Health) Rohit Kumar Singh has said that the condition of patients improved after they were administrated the drugs with three of the four patients recovering.

Speaking to the Indian Times, Singh said that all three patients who recovered were elderly and it appears the drug is working.

3. A 103-year-old grandmother fully recovers in China:

A 103-year-old woman has recovered from the coronavirus and allowed to return home, becoming the oldest person to beat the disease.

Zhang Guangfen recovered after only six days of treatment at a hospital in Wuhan — where the virus initially began.

Her doctor told reporters that her recovery was due to her having no underlying health conditions apart from mild chronic bronchitis.

Although the centenarian is the oldest to recover, it is not by a wide margin with 101 -year-old man also from Wuhan beating the coronavirus just days before.

A 100-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease, hypertension and heart failure also recovered from the virus in Wuhan last week.

4. Cases of coronavirus in South Korea have dropped sharply

South Korea has reported a huge drop in cases of coronavirus, confirming only 74 new cases on Tuesday.

Back in February 29, South Korea hit its peak at 909 new cases.

Experts believe South Korea’s success is due to their expansive testing program with an infectious disease scholar saying that the country proves that ‘diagnostic capacity at scale is key to epidemic control’.

‘Contact tracing is also very influential in epidemic control, as is case isolation,’ Raina MacIntyre told Science Magazine.

5. Apple has re-opened all 42 of its Chinese stores:

Although Apple has closed down all its stores outside of China, it has now reopened all of its 42 stores in the country.

It had only closed all of its Apple stores in China just over a month ago.

According to Reuters, the Chinese website for the iPhone makers has listed its opening times throughout the country from 10.00am to 11.00pm.

6. Dutch researchers have claimed to be the first to find an antibody for Covid-19:

A team of ten scientific researchers in the Netherlands have claimed to have found the first antibody to fend off Covid-19.

The Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam and Utrecht University have said the discovery could lead to antiviral medication and give people the ability to test themselves at home.

They told Erasmus Magazine that the discovered antibody ‘neutralises’ the virus, and ‘offers the potential to prevent and/or treat COVID-19’,

‘As far as we know, this is the very first antibody that blocks the infection,’ Cellular biology professor Frank Grosveld said.

‘Finding something like this is very rare.’