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government-supplied mask has been able to buy 2 pieces per person per week until now, but will increase to 3 pieces from next week. It's because we have room to supply the mask, and the way other people buy it instead is easier now.

This is reporter Park Chan-beom.

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is from the 27th that the number of public mask purchases will increase with '3 pieces per person'.

The government plans to continue the pilot operation next week and maintain the quantity of 'three per person' if there is no problem in supply and demand.

[Lee Eui-kyung / Director of Food and Drug Safety: We plan to monitor the inventory of masks and review them continuously through a pilot operation for a week.] The

government entered into a stabilization stage after the public supply and demand of masks entered the stabilization stage He explained that he decided to increase the number of masks because the mask consumption could be increased by reducing the distance.

In fact, this month, the number of places where public purchases remain in stock is steadily increasing, and the number of weekly mask buyers has declined, dropping to 15 million.

[Pharmacist: I think it is enough now. Some people don't want to wear as many masks as they used to, and some people want to replace them with cotton masks

.In the meantime, if a surrogate purchaser had a different purchase date from a surrogate purchaser, they had to visit the dealer twice, and in the future, they could buy two masks at once to match the purchase day of one of the two.

In addition, even on legal holidays such as Buddha's Day or Children's Day, you can purchase a mask regardless of the birth year, such as the weekend.

(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Hwan-hee Won, CG: Yu-ra Kang, Kyung-mun Lee, VJ: So-young Shin)