Since the Covid-19 outbreak, French care home resident Colette Dupas' contact with her daughters has been limited to talking via video call, or through a window.
Now the 97-year-old has been able to feel their touch, thanks to an inflatable tunnel and two plastic sleeves.
The “hug bubble” allows care home residents, isolated from the outside world to protect them the virus, to hold hands and embrace visiting relatives, because at all times they are separated by a hermetically-sealed plastic film.
Marie-Paule and Marie-Josephe interact with their mother Colette, 97 years old, behind a removable plastic sheet inside a bubble structure which allows families to give hugs without risk of contamination or transmission of Covid-19, installed in the refectory of the Residence du Carre d'Or retirement home at Jeumont Hospital. — Reuters
Raymonde holds the hands of her daughter Fabienne behind a removable plastic sheet inside a bubble structure which allows families to give hugs without risk of contamination or transmission of Covid-19, installed in the refectory of the Residence du Carre d?Or retirement home at Jeumont Hospital. — Reuters
