Prayers at Nakhoda Masjid in Chitpore on the morning of Id on Friday. The Id prayers were held in two slots in the morning.

The number of devotees was roughly a tenth of the usual Id turnout, said the imam of the mosque.

“In view of the second wave of Covid-19, I had appealed to people to offer prayers from home,” he said.

The hugs and handshakes were replaced by ‘dur se salaam’ after the Id prayers.

A notice stuck on the outside wall of a mosque in Serampore read: “There will be no Id namaz at Idgah.” Bishwarup Dutta and Pradip Sanyal

Meanwhile, the gates of a mosque in Serampore, Hooghly, about five minutes from the railway station, were closed and a notice stuck on the outside wall read: “There will be no Id namaz at Idgah.”