When the Japanese government announced the policy to distribute two pieces of cloth masks to all households in response to the mask shortage, controversy was raised over the effectiveness in Japan.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at the meeting of the Corona 19 Countermeasures Headquarters on the evening of the 1st that he would distribute two reusable masks to all households next week.

At the regular press conference on the 2nd, Secretary of State Suga Yoshihide also said, "We decided to distribute two pieces of washable and reusable cloth for every 50 million households." I heard it. ”

At the press conference on this day, questions were asked about the effectiveness and cost of distributing the thousand masks, and the reason for the uniformity of two pieces per household.

Suga said the average number of families per household is 2.4, but when asked why she had two, she said, "because I'm going to the children separately."

He also said that he had been supplying 11 million cloth masks to elementary and middle schools.

On the Internet, criticism of the government's policy to distribute two pieces of cloth masks per household has been blamed.

A man in his 40s living in Tokyo posted a post on his Facebook account that day, "My family is a family of six. I give up because I'm an adult, but who needs to wear a mask now requires four children to rock-paper-scissors ...".

Critics also criticized the need for a relatively easy way for anyone to buy a mask at a nearby store, rather than distributing cloth masks to all furniture at the expense of shipping.

(Photo = Reuters, Yonhap News)