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Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and the president of the Japan Medical Association met Tuesday to discuss measures that can be taken in anticipation of a spike in seriously ill coronavirus patients.

Nakagawa Toshio, the association's head, told Suga that medical care systems are under a lot of pressure because the virus is continuing to spread. He added that the number of seriously ill patients requiring ventilators and special care is expected to grow.

A new survey shows that an increasing number of cancer patients have refrained from going to see doctors amid the coronavirus pandemic.

But it also shows that some were able to cope with anxiety with better information.

Medical experts in Japan have drawn up recommendations for coronavirus treatment options.

The Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine compiled the first guideline of its kind after analyzing reports from across the world.

NHK has learned that the Tokyo Medical Association is considering increasing the number of coronavirus testing sites in the Japanese capital to 1,400 from the current 300 or so.

The association has so far set up around 300 PCR testing sites in Tokyo. These include sites at medical institutions, as well as PCR test centers that are jointly operated by local medical associations and municipalities.

NHK has learned that Japanese police have arrested two doctors on suspicion of killing a woman with a progressive degenerative disease at her request.

Investigative sources say the 51-year-old woman was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and told the people around her that she wanted to undergo euthanasia. ALS gradually paralyzes sufferers.

A medical society in Japan is to research lingering symptoms that some people suffer after recovering from COVID-19 and testing negative.

Members of the Japanese Respiratory Society plan to begin collecting data on infected people from medical institutions across Japan as early as next month.

A group of doctors in Japan is set to begin a clinical trial of a blood plasma treatment for the coronavirus.

The group from the National Center for Global Health and Medicine was given an official go-ahead by the center's ethics committee on Thursday.

Kyoto University Hospital in western Japan says it ordered 116 staff members to isolate themselves at home because they dined out or traveled, despite instructions not to do so.

The hospital says at least 44 doctors, 57 trainee doctors, and 15 others were found to have behaved contrary to the hospital's instructions. The staff members were ordered to avoid dining out or drinking alcohol with others, and also to refrain from traveling.

A major group of doctors in Tokyo has declared a state of medical emergency, citing a possible collapse of the healthcare system.

Tokyo Medical Association President Ozaki Haruo told reporters on Monday that a steady rise in the number of coronavirus patients will not only result in a shortage of hospital beds but trigger in-house infections in hospitals.