"I have one week left, but I don't have one, and I can't get one (N95, KF94, mask that can filter up to 95% of fine particles) that I have to have at school."

A middle school health teacher in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, said in a press call today, "School employees tried to buy masks for a few days, but when they ordered, the company cancels and sells the price after a while." "After all, I didn't get any protection masks, I just bought a regular disposable mask," he said.

After the MERS outbreak, the Ministry of Education's Manual on Prevention and Crisis Response for Students Infectious Diseases requires schools to keep quarantine supplies at all times.

Quarantine items include: ▲ thermometers, medical gloves, masks (for protection and general use), alcohol hand sanitizers, and lacquer and disinfectant tissues.

Among these are protective masks, medical gloves, hand sanitizers, and laxes.

For prevention masks, 5 per classroom and 20 health rooms are recommended stocks, 20 disposable masks per class, and 3 per 10 health room students.

Schools usually have quarantine supplies in January and February ahead of the new semester in March, which has been delayed since the outbreak last month after the outbreak of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19).

The Metropolitan Office of Education has decided to send a special grant of the Ministry of Education and a total of 8.3 billion won to the school, so it has secured money, but there is no place to buy a mask.

An official from the Tokyo Metropolitan Office of Education and Education said, "Most schools have difficulty in supplying masks and asked for cooperation from neighboring local governments.

Some local education offices have discussed with local public health centers to receive masks, but recent reports of corona19 confirmed in Daegu and Gyeongbuk have failed.

In fact, at the beginning of this month, one out of four schools in the province was found to have failed to meet the standard.

Some of these schools have additional masks, but the situation is still not good.

A health education official stressed, "The response system has developed a lot due to swine flu and MERS, but the school site is still difficult." In such an emergency, it is more effective to provide goods than to fund the school. I did.

The Metropolitan Office of Education has asked the Ministry of Education to prepare measures for the supply and demand of masks in schools.

An official from the Metropolitan Office of Education said, "There should be measures, such as preventing one-sided cancellation of orders, even for school orders," he said. "The manual on the prolonged period of infectious diseases should also be urgently supplemented."