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Lightweight and thin, it is easy to breathe. The mask to prevent splash was sold out 10 minutes after it started selling yesterday (8th). Many people are wondering if they can't increase their supply.

Reporter Park Chan-beom recognized the situation.

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masks used to prevent splashing were sold out in the 10th of yesterday.

The two companies sold, but the situation was the same.

There are more than 100,000 masks for blocking splashes released yesterday.

Compared to the 9 million pieces of health masks currently being supplied as public masks per day, we can see why the supply is inadequate.

[Son Jae-Hyeon/Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi: (Purchase) The window opened and said I could buy it, but I couldn't pay it, so I had to do more than one later

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All four companies that have been licensed to produce are producing public masks at the same time, because by the end of this month, the contracted production of public masks, or health masks, must be maintained.

The Food and Drug Administration explained that it could increase its daily supply to 1 million units by the end of this month.

[Park Jong-han/President of Mask Maker: If the public volume ends on the end of June, I think we can produce a larger number of splash-blocking masks after that.]

However, it is difficult to expect production to increase significantly after July . .

It is known that there are alternative products such as surgical masks in the industry and the selling price is not high, so they are reluctant to start mass production.