Japan's health ministry is conducting an online survey to find out how the coronavirus is affecting mental health.

The World Health Organization says a sense of isolation and decreasing incomes are believed to be causing more people to become dependent on alcohol or suffer from insomnia.

A Japanese organization for protecting the rights of entertainers has asked the government to institute a mental health care system for people in the entertainment industry.

The Entertainers' Rights Association made the plea in a statement entitled "Suicides by Entertainers." It was posted on the group's website on Sunday.