Care home residents will be allowed to hold hands with a regular indoor visitor from March 8 under plans to ease lockdown restrictions in England.
Visitors will be required to take a coronavirus lateral flow test before entry and personal protective equipment (PPE) must be worn, the Government has announced.
And although the holding of hands is permitted, closer contact such as hugging or kissing is still banned. Full guidance for care homes is expected to be published in the next fortnight, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson laying out England's roadmap back to normality on February 22.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he was "pleased" that it would soon be possible for people to be "carefully and safely reunited with loved ones who live
Read more on mirror.co.uk