While the whole world is still dealing with the lockdown to fight the novel Coronavirus, China is now getting back to the normal life routine.

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Recently, a factory in China got flak for organizing a weird kissing contest. A video shows how participants were called to kiss with plexiglass in between. The video now has over 10 million views on all Chinese social media platforms. Now, thatâs the opposite of social distancing, isnât it? The furniture factory, known as âYueyaâ invited around ten couples to participate in the bizarre contest.

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#China A furniture factory in Suzhou, Jiangsu had a "Kissing Contest" to celebrate the factory resuming work.

The organisers said this event can help the factory workers relax & there's a transparent glass between the kissers.

Allegedly some of the participants are not couples. pic.twitter.com/9BWWpBkaAs

â W. B. Yeats (@WBYeats1865) April 19, 2020

Some of the couples were reportedly married and lowered their protective face masks to kiss through the glass. The employees were also seen wearing blue boiler suits. According to Global Times, the contest was organized to celebrate the easing of restrictions imposed on the people of China amid the lockdown.

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The owner of the factory, Mr. Ma said, âthe glass had been placed between participants to minimize the risk of infection.â He also said, âSome of the participants were actually married couples who both work in the factory. This pandemic has made everyone very tense. They haven't been able to relax, and that might cause mistakes in the production process.â 

Hereâs what people on the internet think of the kissing contest- 

Ridiculous. Can #Chinese spell this word? Or we shd all ban the travel fm and to #China fm this moment on, for another outbreak of #WuhanVirus #COVID19 will start very soon#MakeChinaPay#ChinaLiedPeopleDied

â ãã¼ã«ã¯ã¼ã« Êâ¢Ù¹â¢Ê (@zi6Yao4) April 19, 2020

I just donât know why China always does these stupid things that shows how foolish they are ...

â Rodman Lok (@LokRodman) April 20, 2020

Could be a kiss of death
What does the #CCP wanted everyone dead

â Windwensð¯ ð¯ð³ð±ð¬ð·ð¬ð·ð¬ð· (@Windwens9) April 19, 2020

both humiliating and risking at spreading virus, hope they sanitize before next one kiss the board

â FreeHK (@FreeHK29884349) April 19, 2020

-_- speechless...... pic.twitter.com/hAzAGxGoSh

â Blue-eyed wolf5DN1Lï¸ (@alexangel8577) April 20, 2020

I put all my savings into the factory closing in a week#CCPVirus

â LinPig (@mil8751) April 19, 2020 

The bizarre competition raised many eyebrows on social media and people also pointed out that none of the participants were maintaining social distancing.

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