While the government has been spreading awareness about tackling the dreaded Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Archbishop of Bombay, Oswald Cardinal Gracias has issued an advisory with precautionary measures to the Catholic community in Mumbai. Apart from discouraging handshakes, the advisory issued on March 5 has also urged people to not kiss the cross during the Good Friday mass which will be held on April 10.

The archbishop's advisory has been sent to all the parish priests across the city said, "On Good Friday at the Veneration of the Cross, discourage people from kissing the cross. The blessing with a raised Cross would be adequate. Those who desire, they could come in a queue make reverence with a bow and go back."