Multiple cases of COVID-19-related suicides in the USA, UK, Italy, Germany, Bangladesh, India and other countries have been reported in mass media and psychiatric literature.17–22 For example, a 19-year-old waitress in England died in a hospital after a suicide attempt because of fears of the ‘mental health impacts’ of isolation.17 A 66-year-old man with throat cancer hanged himself in a New York City hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus.18 A man in Illinois wh…o feared that he and his girlfriend contracted the coronavirus fatally shot his girlfriend and then killed himself.19 They tested negative for the coronavirus. A 36-year-old Bangladeshi man killed himself because he and people in his village thought that he was infected with COVID-19 because he had fever and cold symptoms.20 A postmortem examination showed that he did not have COVID-19. The 49-year-old head of the Emergency Department in a New York City hospital died by suicide after telling her family about the tremendous suffering and death she witnessed while taking care of coronavirus patients.21 Also, there is a huge increase of calls to suicide prevention hotlines in the USA during the current COVID-19 epidemic.22