Resident Mrs Oury, 89, reacts as her daughters Anne and Cecile wave behind a glass during a visit at "Les Figuiers" retirement home (Ehpad - Housing Establishment for Dependant Elderly People) amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Villeneuve-Loubet, France, April 23, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
VILLENEUVE-LOUBET, France (Reuters) - Cecile Oury could not embrace her mother, an 89-year-old resident of a French nursing home, and they were divided by a transparent plastic screen, but they were at least together for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak.
"It's great. It's brilliant. It's necessary," said Oury, who came with her sister Anne to their mother's nursing home after the French government earlier this week relaxed restrictions on visits it had imposed at the start of the outbreak.
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