<span style="color: #222222;">The festive occasion of Christmas in Mumbai is being celebrated in a simple and solemn way this year owing to COVID-19 restrictions. The members of the Christian community in Mumbai and suburban areas are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ indoors only with few very close family and friends.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">As per Maharashtra government's SOPs amidst COVID-19 prevalence only 50 persons have been allowed for Christmas Mass. Due to this most of the prominent churches across the city cancelled offline mass services and streamed only online masses for all. While some churches celebrated Christmas night vigil mass services yesterday with a limited attendance strictly based on preregistration. Today, few parishes organised mass in the morning keeping the congregation to a minimum.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Unlike other years, localities like Bandra, Vasai, Vile Parle,Colaba, Santacruze and Thane known for their vibrant Christmas celebrations have arranged low key festivities.There are very few  outdoor carol singing, get-together and dinner parties or house visits this year. In several places, people depicting themselves as Santa Claus distributed bottles of hand sanitizers to homeless and pavement dwellers children and also gave them the message of keeping social distancing to avoid the spread of Corona infection.</span><br />''