  From March 23rd, the data for the recovered cases of COVID-19 are missing
from the standard repository maintained by the Johns Hopkins University in
collaboration with the WHO. But since data concerning recovered patients are
extremely important for modelling the COVID-19 outbreak, a method for
estimating the missing data is provided and tested. As a byproduct, it produces
estimates for the probabilities to die $k$ days after confirmation, or to
survive after $d$ days.
