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Many people think that even if you can buy a mask without a long line, you will feel less stressed. However, it is not easy to increase production further, and the system of fair selling in pharmacies will be difficult this week. The government today announced plans to increase the public sale of masks by 80 percent.

I'm Je Hee Won.

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The sale started at 2 pm, but I couldn't even expect a time to hand out the number.

[Nam Ki-yeon / Goyang-si Daehwa-dong: (Morning) I'm at 7 o'clock and I got my number from 10 o'clock. I waited three hours. I came here because I didn't have to walk around the pharmacy.]

Yesterday, the governing body said it would eliminate almost all mask exports and encourage weekend production.

But exports are already blocked, and domestic production is at a margin where it is harder to increase.

[Park Jong Han / Representative of mask company: We are running 24 hours now. The most problematic thing is MB. There is not enough material. It's not enough, but it's not enough.

The announcements that have been made are often revised.

The Ministry of Education, which decided to supply 5.8 million school reserves to the general public, changed its plan to walk only 1.6 million schools in the metropolitan area.

This is because of the criticism of recruiting hard-saved children's masks.

Planning to use the pharmacy's health insurance system to prevent duplicate purchases also requires more time.

[Eui-Kyung / Director of Food and Drug Administration: We will build a system by next Monday… .]

The government explained that it would have to be next week in order to be able to buy a mask at the pharmacy without queues.

The government is expected to announce today a plan to increase the percentage of masked public sales to 80% of total production and limit the number of purchases per person to two per week.