Mangaluru : The annual feast of Infant Jesus at Infant Jesus Shrine, Carmel Hill, Bikarnakatte has been postponed following the new additional measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 by the Karnataka government and the weekend curfew.

Rev Fr Rovel D’Souza, director of the shrine, said, the annual festival supposed  to be held from January 14 to 16, the new dates of the feast would be announced later. Though the formal inauguration of the festivities was done by hoisting the flag on January 4, after the new guidelines, the nine-day Novena prayers to be held from January 5 to 13 during which there would have been nine masses a day, has also been suspended.