Coronavirus hug image wins press award Second time Danish photographer gets prestigious honor By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Published: April 18, 2021, 6:05am Share: 24 Photos 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) Photo Gallery 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.