Coronavirus hug image wins press award
Second time Danish photographer gets prestigious honor
By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press
Published: April 18, 2021, 6:05am
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The First Embrace, shows Rosa Luzia Lunardi, 85, embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza, at Viva Bem care home, Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Aug. 5, 2020. The photo won the World Press photo of the year. (Mads Nissen, Politiken, Panos Pictures, World Press Photo)
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A photo symbolizing “love and compassion” of an 85-year-old Brazilian woman getting her first embrace in five months from a nurse through a transparent “hug curtain” was named the World Press Photo of the Year on Thursday.