<Anchor> With a

friendly economy, reporter Kwon Aeri. Reporter Kwon, the number of public masks that could only be purchased three times a week will increase significantly this week, right?

<Reporter>

Yes. In the future, it will increase to 10 per person per week.

It is from tomorrow (18th) that the standard changes exactly.

Those who have already purchased three masks for this week's share, which were originally set this week, can buy seven more during the period from tomorrow to Sunday the 21st.

If you haven't bought it yet, you can't buy all 10 cards today. So far, there are only three.

If you still have a mask left at home, you may be more comfortable waiting one more day and buying 10 at a time starting tomorrow.

The five subtitles for each day of the week were lost. You can live at any time you want, and you can buy it for each other, not just for children and the elderly, but also for the whole family.

It all stays the same. It is the same as before that you have to bring documents to prove your relationship with your ID card and have it verified.

<Anchor> I think the

inventory is quite in the pharmacy, but the government has decided to gradually reduce the weight of this public mask, right?

<Reporter>

Yes. In fact, getting a public mask is not so difficult these days. You can find it anytime you go.

Even if you search online shopping malls, you can find KF80 and 94 masks that sell a little cheaper than public masks sold for 1,500 won per sheet.

In the meantime, the production volume of masks per day in the country has increased by a factor of 2 compared to last year. In the case of last week, more than 15 million masks were produced per day on average.

It was produced at the level of 1 trillion sheets in a week. So far, 60% of them have been supplied as public masks, but the government plans to match the amount of private distribution in the future.

In doing so, even if the number of public masks available to a person is increased to 10 pieces per week, the same mask controversy will not be repeated until early March.

In addition, the export volume of masks has been limited to less than 10% of the total production volume, but this will be increased to 30%.

In fact, as I said before, the production of masks has been greatly increased in a short period of time, so it is necessary for the mask industry to be able to digest this increased amount in the future, and the original deadline for introducing the public mask system was until June 30th.

We plan to extend this to July 11th and look at the situation, but gradually reduce the amount of public distribution to meet the current emergency.

<Anchor>

By the way, it was easy to get this public mask, but there was an increase in the amount of production that you said, but it wasn't because there was an increase in the demand for a thin and less sweaty mask as the days got hotter.

<Reporter>

Yes. That's right. In fact, writing fortifications is really hard, and the amount of public masks that are still more expensive than they were formed last year is decreasing.

This month, the number of children increased to 5 per week, but you can see the sales volume is gradually decreasing.

On the other hand, it is the 500 won splash mask that makes the case out of stock these days.

This product is only 400,000 pieces a day, but it is very popular because it is thin and cheap.

So now, public masks have never happened, and people who succeeded in obtaining this splash mask have raised 274 cases in the last week because the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has raised prices two or three times as much as online used trading sites.

As of now, there are no penalties for obtaining and selling this splash mask. So, it is a policy to continue to monitor and ask to delete used transaction postings as seen.

Some prices are getting more inflated on the market. Dental mask. A quasi-dental mask, that is, a quality dental mask with a filter that has been proven by health authorities, has yet to produce 800,000 pieces per day.

Of these, 60% of these are difficult to obtain on the market because you have to go to the medical staff first, and what you can get is trading at over 1,000 won per sheet, which is 10 times the public price of going to a medical institution.

So, in the future, we plan to increase the sales volume of splash masks and dental masks by 25%, respectively, by the end of this month. For the time being, private distribution volumes cannot increase significantly.

It is true that it is difficult to increase production in just one day, but it will be very hot and difficult for the time being, but I think it would be good to think that you can help each other through this difficult period by alternately purchasing and using the public mask with sufficient circulation.