Inside a South Korean COVID-19 ICU

bbc.com March 26, 2020

In a South Korean ICU, nurses wearing heavy self-contained respiratory systems work two-hour shifts.

South Korea has seen a great success mitigating its large COVID-19 outbreak.

South Korea has 12.3 hospital beds per 1000 people, one of the highest in the world.

As of March 26, 2020, South Korea confirmed 9,137 cases of infection including 126 deaths after the first case of coronavirus in the country on January 20. As of the same date, 4,144 patients were released from quarantine after making a full recovery from the virus. In total, over 364,000 people have been tested until now.