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Masks are indispensable every day in the current coronavirus situation, and the price of masks is inevitably a huge burden for the homeless and other vulnerable groups. As a result, there are cases where people pick up masks that have been used by others.

CJB Ahn Jung is a reporter.

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Cheongju Seongan-gil is the largest floating population in Chungbuk. A man is looking for something in a pile of garbage.

A closer look at the man's left hand, who looks like a homeless man, reveals two masks.

Maybe I can't buy a mask, so I'm looking for a mask that others have thrown away in the garbage?

The reporter went to the same place today (25th), and the man was scouring the trash like yesterday.

And, unfortunately, the expectations did not go wrong.

[Homeless person: (Where did this (mask) come from?) I picked it up. I picked it up and washed it with laundry soap. (You did that because it was expensive to buy a mask?) I have no money. I don't have money to buy cup noodles.]

Even in the nearby parks, people who have lived on the street for a long time can be seen everywhere. After all, it is difficult to find a person wearing a mask.

[Neighboring Merchant: I wish there was an event that distributes masks at public health centers or other places, but I haven't seen it yet since the coronavirus.]

Neglecting homeless people or vulnerable people on the street as they are can cause problems in quarantine.

[Seonghoe Choi/Chungcheongbuk-do Welfare Policy Manager: If you are reported as a homeless person, you can immediately enter a homeless facility according to the due process.]

Accurate investigation and countermeasures for those in the blind spot of quarantine in Corona 19 are urgent. .

(Video coverage: Park Hee-sung CJB)