Picture of coronavirus hug named World Press Photo of the Year
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15/04/2021 - 18:43 Mads Nissen s award-winning photo, titled The First Embrace, shows Rosa Luzia Lunardi embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza at a care home in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on August 5, 2020. © Madds Nissen, World Press Photo via AP 5 min 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. Advertising Read more
The choice of a winning photo portraying the global pandemic was almost inevitable for the contest covering a year in which news around the globe was dominated by the virus that has killed nearly 3 million people, including more than 360,000 in hard-hit Brazil.
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