SOUTH KOREA FACING ACUTE ICU BED SCARCITY FOR CRITICAL COVID-19 PATIENTS

• Korea is facing an acute shortage of intensive care unit beds (ICU) as the country has seen a sharp rise in the number of daily new COVID-19 infections.
• Central and local governments are using painstaking efforts to come up with fast countermeasures. This includes Seoul City that has created makeshift wards using containers on the grounds of city-run hospitals.

As indicated by the Central Disaster a....