<Anchor>

Friendly economy, Kwon Ae-ri reporter. Gwon, it's a mask. How long will it continue, less than a week since the public sale began?

<Reporter>

Yes. It's now seven days. In total, 5.88 million copies were distributed at retailers yesterday. If you look into it, 700,000 of them were specially supplied to Daegu Gyeongbuk.

The other half, or 2.3 million, was sent to pharmacies nationwide, including Daegu and Gyeongbuk. The 1.15 million pieces were also sent to medical institutions like hospitals and clinics across the country, including Daegu and Gyeongbuk.

700,000 pieces were sent to Hanaro Mart, 650,000 pieces to the post office, and 320,000 pieces were sent to the public home shopping and SME distribution centers.

<Anchor>

It's quite a lot, but it's not enough for all the people to use together and it's anxiety.

<Reporter>

Yes. If you look at the pharmacy with the largest number of masks, there are 23,140 pharmacies across the country as of last year.

Just dividing the number of 237 million pieces that were released yesterday by this number alone, it would be 100 per place.

Because there are five sales restrictions per person. Even if only 20 people came to a pharmacy, the masks that came in yesterday are likely to be sold out.

And it's not evenly distributed in 100 pharmacies across the country. Consumers who are eagerly waiting for a mask don't know where many are.

So this pharmacy tells me that I haven't been to the pharmacy, there is a line for every store that a mask is in, and I saved some of the people in front of me, but the person who stood behind was slumped.

Especially yesterday, it was a little better with 588 million pieces released. Last Sunday, March 1, there were only 2.35 million copies of public masks, less than half yesterday.

There were many pharmacies and post offices. It's natural to take a rest on Sunday, but it also points out that in this situation, an alternative was needed to ensure that weekend distribution and public supply were not reduced.

So the post office started yesterday to announce where the next day would be, how many would be available the next day.

If you go to the website of the Korea Post and the subtitles you see now, you can see the total amount of masks that are released today in 1,406 post offices in Daegu, Qingdao, and Eup, Myeon.

You can buy it from 11 am. The post office is open at 2 pm in the afternoon and the Jeju post office starts at 5 pm. Island area depends on the supply and demand situation.

<Anchor>

Given this situation, let's change the current public sales and distribution method. Are these suggestions coming out?

<Reporter>

Yes. As the situation is now, there are opinions that the volume of masks that are publicly sold should be increased.

In fact, some local governments have previously obtained masks and distributed them through community centers.

Since local governments have different manpower and work capacity, we should check whether we can do this nationwide.

It is likely that young people who are healthy, informed or have time to talk about these things can buy five chapters here and get another set to go there, while being alienated if they are in a difficult position to move quickly. This is because the anxiety of being easy exists.

That's why Busan's Gijang-gun chose the topic. Gijang-gun bought a million masks and visited and distributed them from house to house. In the case of apartments, they were placed in the guard room and taken with them.

It's a way to avoid the situation where the mask is concentrated on the minority without having to stand in line with the country's recommendation to get away from the society and to stand up and buy the mask.

In addition, more than 60,000 people have already participated in a petition posted on the Blue House National Petition Bulletin Board yesterday. Citizens who introduced themselves as pharmacists to use DUR, `` Drug Use Service '', suggested.

DUR is a system that allows pharmacists to keep track of what is prescribed by other pharmacies to prevent drug abuse or side effects.

We're going to use this mask to manage how much one person has access to the public sale mask. In fact, it's a hard way right now.

DUR is a prescription system administered by the Insurance Reviewers. Non-medical masks cannot be included.

But in special situations, masks are things that people like to have access to, like health insurance.

It seems clear that it is time to consider and realize the distribution laws that masks can be evenly distributed in some way.