Photo snapshot she hugged the nurse at the Brazilian nursing home after months of quarantining because Covid-19 won the world press award of the year.

The award today was given to the Danish photographer Mads Nissen with a photo named "The first hug".

Rosa Luiza Lunardi hugged nurses in the nursing home in Sao Paolo, Brazil in August 2020.

In the photo taken in August 2020, Ms. Rosa Luiza Lunardi, 85, was hugging a nurse after she was isolated 5 months in the nursing home in Sao Paulo.

The first photo was posted on Denmark's Politiken daily, where Nissen was working.

"Iconic images of this Covid-19 mark the most extraordinary moment in our lives, everywhere," said the jury of the World Press League Kevin Wy Lee.

According to him, the picture shows the injury, loss and division, but if "look long enough on the picture, you will see wings, symbols of flying and hope".

In addition to winning the main category of the competition, "the first hugging" also won the prize in the outstanding newspaper category.

This is the second time Nissen won the world press award.

Danish photographer Mads Nissen.

Photographer Italy Antonio Faccilongo won the World Press Story of the year, a new award was added since 2019, giving the image of love stories to set the context of a long conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Photos of Faccilongo "showed another side of the long-lasting contemporary conflict," Ahmed Najm jury member said.

More than 74,000 photos have been about 4,300 photographers around the world.