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According to government policy, only two masks can be purchased per person since yesterday. Starting next week, depending on the end of the year, you will only be able to buy masks at pharmacies.

This is reporter Park Chan-keun.

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It's an hour more to open the pharmacy, but more than 50 residents are already in line.

The pharmacy knows that you can only buy two in a week, but if you run out of stock early, you will have to find a pharmacy that has enough supplies.

[Song Kyung-sook / Seoul Guro-gu: I keep cutting in line like this, cut off, I bought two of them all week.]

The government says it has supplied 726 million public masks, but it is not enough to meet the mask demands of unsettled citizens.

There was still great confusion.

[From here on Monday, Monday.]
[No, why don't you give me your ID card?]

The pharmacy says that the process of checking the social security number and entering it into the computer has increased the time it takes to sell two masks to a person by two or three minutes.

[Pharmacist: At the pharmacy, you have to enter all the data one by one, and each time you make a calculation, it takes a lot of time.]

If a pharmacy received about 100 public masks, it would only have to sell about 2 hours a day.

[Lee Eunha / Pharmacist: I'm worried that it would be a bit difficult to enter the pharmacy while I work alone without an employee like me.]

President Moon Jae-in has instructed the government to expand the range of surrogate receipts available only to people with disabilities when it comes to restricting the purchase of public masks.

As a result, the guidelines will be changed to allow the purchase of masks on behalf of the elderly or small children who have difficulty in movement, nine days before the fifth subtitle.