MONTIJO, Portugal: Maria das Merces struggled to hold back tears after she saw her 90-year-old father at a Portuguese care home: Chatting to him ...
Maria das Merces speaks with her father Adriano Borges through a glass window to prevent infection, May 12, 2020. MONTIJO, Portugal: Maria das Merces struggled to hold back tears after she saw her 90-year-old father at a Portuguese care home: Chatting to him from inside a glass booth erected in front of a window to allow elderly residents to visit family during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Opened earlier this month at the Montepio nursing home in the town of Montijo across the River Tagus from Lisbon, the air-conditioned glass box sits outside the building alongside one of the rooms.A worker cleans a giant glass box before the visit of relatives at an elderly residence, May 12, 2020.
Portugal, which has reported more than 28,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 1,175 deaths - a fraction of the toll in neighbouring Spain, started to ease the lockdown on May 4.
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