(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 11, 2020 A resident (L) of the Domenico Sartor nursing home in Castelfranco Veneto, near Venice, hugs her visiting daughter through a plastic screen in a so-called "Hug Room" amid the new coronavirus pandemic. - Italy on December 12, 2020 recorded the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 in Europe since the start of the epidemic - 64,036 - taking the place of the United Kingdom for this dramatic record. (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP)