Intensive Care Units (ICU) to care for the critically ill patients. According to the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), one in five patients of COVID-19 may need ICU during treatment
Most will have no or mild illness but maybe six in seven will need hospital admission with the majority requiring a computerised tomography (CT) scan.
Currently, across the country there are approximately 50 critical care beds including ICU beds and high dependency beds.