Italian care home residents see visitors in ‘room of hugs’

Inside an inflatable ‘room of hugs’ where Italian care home residents can touch their loved ones through plastic screens

  • Care home residents sat with their visitors in the ‘rooms of hugs’ in Campania in southern Italy on Saturday
  • Wearing gloves and masks, guests pressed their hands and faces against the screen to get close to loved ones
  • Italy’s elderly population was among the first to feel the full horrors of Covid-19 last February and March 

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