According to data analysed in China, the majority of patients with COVID-19 developed mild symptoms such as fever, dyspnoea, dry cough or myalgia, which would mostly self-resolve without intervention. However, up to 20% of the patients admitted to hospitals developed severe complications such as acute respiratory distress syndrome, arrhythmias, shock, heart failure or acute renal failure, which required admission to intensive care units [3, 4].