Why no-one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England

Why no-one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England – a statistical anomaly: it seems that PHE [Public Health England] regularly looks for people on the NHS database who have ever tested positive, and simply checks to see if they are still alive or not. PHE does not appear to consider how long ago the COVID test result was, nor whether the person has been successfully treated in hospital and discharged to the community. Anyone who has tested COVID positive but subsequently died at a later date of any cause will be included on the PHE COVID death figures.