A restaurant in a Tamil Nadu hotel has been cooking up wheat-based masks to go with their usual offerings.

The Temple City Hotel in Madurai creates "Mask Parottas" for 25 rupees in addition to their usual dishes.

Cases of COVID-19 have risen in the area to around 300 new cases per day and has since been under intense lockdown rules.

Local reports suggest that citizens are not wearing protective masks leading to an increase in cases, forcing the hotel to help raise awareness.

Mask shaped south Indian bread(parota) are now the best selling foods in the pandemic in South India.

The world is now in the hands of the deadly virus, in-order to give awareness on wearing a mask a restaurant in Madurai of South India decided to make mask shaped breads (rotis or parotas).

And a pan cake (rava dosai) in the shape of the Corona virus and they also have another dish that is the deep fried onion with the batter. This also resembles the Corona virus shape. Customers in that particular area are dying to buy these foods. The owner of the restaurant said "We just wanna do something to the society in this pandemic and so we chose to raise awareness". He also added "We also provide herbal soup and tea that's helps in improving the immunity.