JEUMONT, France — 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 from the virus, to hold hands and embrace visiting relatives, because at all times they are separated by a hermetically sealed plastic film.
Dupas ran a bakery in Boussois, 6 kilometers from the nursing home, until her retirement. Her family still runs the business.
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