'Love in the times of corona,' is a term you must have heard plenty of times during 2020. It's 2021 and the statement still applies.
A heartwarming incident has come to light from Italy which proves that love will always find a way.?
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According to a post which has now gone viral on Facebook, a male nurse in a hospital in southern Italy proposed to his girlfriend with the big question while he was dressed in protective clothing.?
In the post, Giuseppe Pungente shared a photo of himself in a corridor of the respiratory ward of the Ostuni hospital in Puglia, his back turned to the camera.
"Carmeli, do you want to marry me?" was the message written on the back of Pungente's gown, with "Yes" and "No" options underneath.
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Pungente wrote that, as a nurse "in the front line in the fight against the virus" who had recovered himself from COVID-19, "I've developed the idea that real life is made of small and simple things..."
"Such as close friends, birth family and the one of the future, together with you, Carmen Pinto."
The sixteenth message below his photograph was Pinto responding "YESSSSSSSSS" followed by seven heart emojis.
Pungente got infected with COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic in March, and in recent days was vaccinated, La Repubblica daily reported.