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Following an on-site covid test, the so-called tenda degli abbracci or curtain of hugs allows parents to insert their arms into plastic sleeves and embrace their children through the transparent sheet, in what is reportedly the first of its kind in an Italian paediatric hospital.  Andrea, who has been hospitalised for three months at S. Raffaele, with his mother by his side, wrote a letter to Santa Claus with the wish that he could finally hug his papà again. Thanks to the new hug curtain, his wish was granted. "After a year like this - without hugs, without parties, without grandparents...

'Hugging curtain' reunites parents with hospitalised kids in Rome Web report/Rome Photo: AFP The hospital got the idea from the children's letters to Santa Claus A rehabilitation hospital in Rome has come up with an innovative way to allow hospitalised children, who are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus, the ability to enjoy personal contact with loved ones after several months — thanks to a "hugging curtain". In a video posted by AFP, parents and friends of children hospitalised at San Raffaele can be seen inserting their arms into the protective ‘arms’ of the curtain for a lo...