S. Korea to raise weekly mask purchase limit to 10 starting Thursday

2020-06-16 18

18일부터 '공적 마스크' 1인당 10개 살 수 있다

Starting this Thursday, ordinary citizens in South Korea will be able to buy up to 10 face masks per week under the public mask rationing system.
That was announced today by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.
The current limit is three masks a week for adults and five for minors.
Also, the government's control of mask distribution, originally set to end on June 30th,... has been extended to July 11th.
Meanwhile,... South Korea reported 34 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday,... marking the third day in a row the number of new cases has been in the thirties.
Of the new cases, 21 were local transmissions and 13 were imported cases.
Twelve cases were reported in Seoul, two were in Incheon, and five in Gyeonggi-do Province.