Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended Tuesday his government's plan to dispense cloth masks to all households as "reasonable" to fight the spread of the new coronavirus in Japan as disposable ones are still in short supply.The government will submit a supplementary budget for fiscal 2020 from April to the Diet next week to finance an emergency package worth 108 trillion yen ($1 trillion), part of which will fund the mask distribution."It's very helpful in coping with surging demand for face masks. It's a reasonable step," Abe told parliament.Critics say the distribution of what some ridicule a…READ FULL ARTICLE
