KEY POINTS
  • "About 25% of them have very serious disease, requiring relatively intensive or really intensive care," NIH's Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNBC on Monday.
  • China's National Health Commission said the confirmed coronavirus cases in China increased to 17,205. The death toll rose to 361 there.
  • "There are probably a lot more people who were infected in China who have not been really counted," Fauci said. "The number is probably much larger."

Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health told CNBC on Monday that a quarter of China's coronavirus cases require intensive treatment.

"About 25% of them have very serious disease, requiring relatively intensive or really intensive care," said the director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.