This Feb. 17, 2020, photo shows a notice at Makita General Hospital in Tokyo announcing it will suspend outpatient medical treatment after a doctor and nurse working at the hospital were confirmed as infected with new coronavirus. Hospitals in Japan are increasingly turning away sick people in ambulances as the country braces for a surge in coronavirus infections. The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine and the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine say emergency medicine has already collapsed with many hospitals refusing to treat people including those suffering strokes, heart attacks and external injuries. (Takuya Inaba/Kyodo News via AP)