Coronavirus-shaped cucumber in Odisha village has become centre of attraction

The world came to standstill due to the Coronavirus and governments are using various means to create awareness among people on the virus like distributing Corona shaped helmets. While anything related to the virus is attracting the people. Similarly, a virus shaped cucumber, which was grown at a farm in Saraguda village in Odisha has become the centre of attraction.

Nabarangpur (Odisha): When the world is battling against the Covid-19 pandemic, a cucumber in the shape of the virus, which was found in a farm at a village in Nabarangpur district, has become the cynosure of all eyes.

Scientists named the virus as Corona due to the crown-like spikes on the surface of it. Now, similar kind of spikes that of Coronavirus were found in a cucumber in an agricultural farm at Saraguda village under Dabugaon block of the district.

“When I visited the farm at Saraguda village to make payment to labourers working there, one of them plucked a cucumber looking like a Coronavirus. I was surprised on seeing it. After I shared the cucumber’s image on social media, many people have been enquiring about it and visiting the farm to have a glimpse of the unusual cucumber,” said Rabi Kiran Nag, the owner of the farm.