More than 1,000 Alabamians diagnosed with coronavirus have recovered, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.

ADPH hasn’t released in-depth data on the number of patients that have gotten better after a COVID-19 diagnosis, but in Facebook post said that “prelimininary data indicated about 1,200 cases have recovered."

“We will continue to monitor for additional cases recovered,” the post said.

Providing exact numbers on recoveries is difficult, ADPH said.

The department “does not receive hospital discharge data making it difficult to collect all elements on patients discharged from the hospital with COVID-19. Other information changes daily as some patients are removed from ventilators or ICU in one facility while patients in other facilities are being placed on ventilators or in ICU. Thus, data would be inaccurate.

“Alabama is looking at ways to report patients released from quarantine or patients recovered. However, this will require additional staff time, and, at this moment, staff time must be primarily dedicated to case investigation and contact tracing to contain and reduce the spread of this virus,” ADPH said.

As of Sunday morning, there are 4,723 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Alabama with 147 reported deaths. There have been 620 coronavirus-related hospitalizations since March 13, but that number is cumulative and we don’t know how many remain in the hospital at this time. ADPH earlier said about 15 percent of COVID-19 cases in Alabama have required hospitalization.