'Hug glove' gives Canada family bit of normalcy in pandemic

Carolyn Ellis (R) hugs her mother Susan Watts using the "hug glove" that Carolyn and her husband Andrew created as a Mother's Day gift in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. [Image: AFP]

A Canadian woman has come up with an ingenious way to safely hug her mother, even during the coronavirus pandemic: the "hug glove," a plastic tarp with four sleeves hanging from a clothesline.