Ontario hospital intensive care units now have nearly 2,000 beds equipped with ventilators to help care for COVID-19 patients, an increase of nearly 50 per cent from March, according to data obtained by CBC News. The latest Critical Care Services Ontario daily report on the pandemic shows a province-wide capacity of 1,971 ICU beds equipped with ventilators. Modelling released by the province on Friday suggests Ontario will need to add an extra 900 intensive care beds to cope with a projected steep rise in COVID-19 patients over the next two weeks. This graph is Ontario's forecast of demand for additional intensive care beds at the province's hospitals over the coming weeks, based on the current rate of spread of COVID-19. Some of Ontario's 34 public health units are providing local breakdowns of the number of patients in intensive care.

Source: CBC News April 06, 2020 17:16 UTC