Coronavirus hug image named World Press Photo of the Year
The winner of World Press Photo of the Year award, and the first prize in the General News Singles category, showing Rosa Luzia Lunardi embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza, at Viva Bem care home, Sao Paulo, Brazil Picture: Mads Nissen, Politiken, Panos Pictures, World Press Photo via AP
A photo symbolising “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” has been named the World Press Photo of the Year.
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 three million people, including more than 360,000 in hard-hit Brazil.
