COPENHAGEN, Denmark: The award ceremony for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, traditionally held at the Oslo city hall on Dec. 10, will instead be held in scaled-down form at the citys university because of the coronavirus outbreak.
It is a strange and challenging year in many ways. We experience the same thing as many others, namely that things must be done in a new way, Olav Njoelstad, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the body that oversees the Nobel Peace Prize, told Norway broadcaster NRK on Tuesday.
Ceremonies for the other prizes physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine and literature as well as the economic prize will be awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, on the same day. Organizers also have scheduled smaller ceremonies because of the pandemic.
Since 1901, the prizes have been presented at ceremonies on…