<Anchor>

Thin anti-fogging masks or surgical masks are still difficult to obtain, so prices are skyrocketing online and there is a situation in which they are sold back. Now you can buy up to 10 public masks a week, but demand continues to decline.

This is reporter Park Chan-beom.

<Reporter> With the

increasing demand for surgical masks called dental masks, online prices are rapidly increasing.

The price that is publicly supplied to medical institutions is around 7,000 won for 50 sheets, but it is sold at about 10 times the price in online markets.

There is a lot of posts on the used trading site saying that you want to buy a mask to prevent splash, but a mask with a price of 500 won is usually traded at a price of 2-3 times.


In the past 8 days, only 274 cases have been caught selling repellent masks at high prices.

[Anti-fogging mask makers: ○○ or △△. Young friends are selling it on sites that sell used goods.]

The popularity of thin and light summer masks is soaring, but health masks like KF80 and 94 are overflowing in stock.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety increases the number of public mask purchases up to 3 pieces per week from 10 to 10, and increases export allowance.

However, we are planning to increase the volume of private distribution to 400,000 and 1 million sheets, respectively, by the end of the month, excluding surgical masks and splash masks with domestic supply.

[Yiuigyeong / Food and Drug Director: Splash off, but working with such industry that allowed the 22 companies 40 items, masks are expected to take some time before full production is expanded as necessary to all citizens -

government We plan to abolish the public mask system after the 12th of next month.

(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Choi Hye-young, CG: Ryu Sang-soo, VJ: Oh Se-gwan) 

▶ After three days of confirmation… Senior self-insulator management'gap'
▶ As soon as'prohibition of aggregation' is released… Gangnam entertainment establishment confirmed