Keeping up with the times, a soap opera on an Indian television channel used a face-mask and a face-shield to add some drama to its storyline.

A new episode of the long-running Ye Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai on Star Plus featured one of the actors dramatically removing her face-mask (and not in the correct, hygienic way) upon seeing another woman wearing a face-shield.

A short video of the sequence has gone viral on social media, inviting hilarious responses from social media users.