Virus hug image named World Press Photo

By Mike Corder
Updated April 16 2021 - 1:29am, first published 1:27am
Rosa Luzia Lunardi's hug with Adriana Silva da Costa Souza was picked for a World Press Photo award.
Rosa Luzia Lunardi's hug with Adriana Silva da Costa Souza was picked for a World Press Photo award.

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.

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