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Nobel ceremonies go low-key this year because of coronavirus

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In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, photo provided by Nobel Prize Outreach, Louise Glck stands beside the medal awarded to her for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies were altered this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, the laureates' achievements are being rewarded at low-key ceremonies where they live or work. (Daniel Ebersole/ Nobel Prize Outreach via AP)
In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, photo provided by Nobel Prize Outreach, Louise Glck poses outside her home n Cambridge, Mass., where she was awarded a medal for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies were altered this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, the laureates' achievements are being rewarded at low-key ceremonies where they live or work. (Daniel Ebersole/ Nobel Prize Outreach via AP)
In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, photo provided by Nobel Prize Outreach, Louise Glck holds the medal awarded to her for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature is displayed outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies were altered this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, the laureates' achievements are being rewarded at low-key ceremonies where they live or work. (Daniel Ebersole/ Nobel Prize Outreach via AP)
In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, photo provided by Nobel Prize Outreach, the medal awarded to Louise Glck for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature is displayed outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies were altered this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, the laureates' achievements are being rewarded at low-key ceremonies where they live or work. (Daniel Ebersole/ Nobel Prize Outreach via AP)
FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Oct. 9, 2020, a woman wearing a face mask walks past a sign at the entrance of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), in Rome, after the WFP won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Because of the global coronavirus pandemic the pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies has been reined in this year, with no glitzy banquet honoring winners. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, FILE)

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In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, photo provided by Nobel Prize Outreach, Louise Glck stands beside the medal awarded to her for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies were altered this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, the laureates' achievements are being rewarded at low-key ceremonies where they live or work. (Daniel Ebersole/ Nobel Prize Outreach via AP)