Luo Yijun, deputy head of the medical response team of the command center, said that the number of patients admitted to the intensive care unit has reached the highest level since this year, but it is not necessarily the new crown patients, but the increase in demand for other hospital beds such as cardiovascular diseases, which indirectly affects the medical capacity.

(Provided by Command Center)

[Reporter Qiu Zhirou/Taipei Report] The local epidemic of Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) continues to heat up. The Central Epidemic Epidemic Command Center has found that the number of medical treatments has been checked. Recently, the intensive care unit is full. Luo Yijun said that the number of patients admitted to the intensive care unit has reached the highest point since this year, but it is not necessarily the new crown patients, but the increase in demand for other hospital beds such as cardiovascular diseases, which indirectly affects the medical capacity. Opening rate of dedicated COVID-19 wards.

Luo Yijun explained that after the Spring Festival, the number of patients admitted to the intensive care unit increased. Today, the number of patients admitted to the special ward reached 2,624, and the number of patients admitted to the dedicated intensive care unit was 488, both of which are the highest points since this year.

But not necessarily all patients with new crowns, other patients such as cardiovascular diseases have increased, so the demand for medical beds has increased.

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Observing the recent admissions to intensive care units, Luo Yijun said that the non-specialized intensive care unit that mainly treats general critically ill patients has an empty bed rate of only 16.6%, which is less than 20%. The 18.6% increased to 24.2% today.

At present, the vacancy rate of dedicated hospital beds in the country is as high as 51.6%.

(Provided by Command Center)

Luo Yijun said that in order to balance medical needs, the vacancy rate of dedicated hospital beds across the country is currently 51.6%, and the vacancy rate in Taipei District is less than 50%. The original opening rates were 5%, 2 to 3% in the eastern district, and lowered to more than 4% in the northern and central districts.

According to the statistics of the command center, the total number of beds in the centralized quarantine center is currently 2,436, and the number of empty beds is 2,054, with an empty bed rate of 84.3%.

There are 152 beds in the strengthened anti-epidemic hotel, 145 beds are empty, and the empty bed rate is 95.4%.

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