Rare chance to say goodbye

CORONAVIRUS | Her hand clad in a blue latex glove, her face masked by a perspex shield, the woman lovingly stroked her father’s grey curls, cradled his head and pressed her mouth as close to his cheek as she could manage.

Doctors in the Chilean capital of Santiago fought for weeks to save 76-year-old Don Jaime from the clutches of the coronavirus pandemic, but last week recognised they would lose the battle and invited his family into the hospital to say goodbye...