Your Friday Briefing

Viral video highlights Australia’s lockdown fatigue

Zoe Buhler was fed up with the lockdown in her Australian metropolis. So she created a Fb occasion encouraging folks to return out and protest this weekend. Then the police arrived at her door.

Ms. Buhler, 28, livestreamed her arrest in Ballarat on Wednesday, and the video has since been considered hundreds of thousands of instances. Within the video, she is heard telling officers that she is pregnant, that she has an ultrasound appointment in an hour and that her kids are in the home. When the officers inform her that her Fb publish violated legal guidelines, she affords to delete it however to no avail. They then seize her units.

Her arrest has been widely criticized as an overreach of the emergency powers enacted to help control virus spread within the state of Victoria, the place Ms. Buhler lives. These powers have been prolonged by one other six months. Frustration is on the rise all through the state, the place everybody is anticipated to remain at house apart from train, looking for important items, medical care and work or training.

Listed below are the latest updates and maps of the pandemic.

In different developments:

• India reported 83,883 new coronavirus circumstances on Thursday, breaking its personal international document. It has the world’s third-highest variety of circumstances and deaths after the US and Brazil.

• The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention has notified public well being officers in all U.S. states and 5 giant cities to prepare to distribute a coronavirus vaccine to well being care employees and different high-risk teams as quickly as late October or early November.

• The Venice Movie Competition, the primary giant film extravaganza to happen for the reason that pandemic started, opened on Wednesday with quite a few security measures in place.

Russia on the defensive over Navalny poisoning

Officers and state media commentators are responding to Germany’s revelation of the poisoning of the opposition chief Aleksei Navalny with an array of inconceivable explanations.

On prime-time TV, they have come up with many scenarios: that Mr. Navalny poisoned himself, that he and his supporters had been “placing on an enormous theater play,” that an enemy of Russia poisoned him or that the poisoning by no means really occurred.

Such flurries of evidence-free theories have grow to be customary responses to accusations of wrongdoing by Moscow — whether or not it’s election meddling, navy interventions or assassinations. The formal international ministry response has been to accuse Germany of creating claims with out producing “any info in any respect.”

Rationale: Analysts say the objective is to fill the information media with so many prospects that individuals have no idea what to consider.

India bans greater than 100 Chinese language apps

The federal government banned 118 Chinese phone apps on Wednesday as tensions continued to escalate alongside the nation’s disputed border with China, with one Indian soldier reportedly killed this week by a Chinese language land mine.

The brand new measures, meant to chop off India’s enormous home market from Beijing as a strategy to strike again, will block Indians from fashionable video games like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which has over 50 million customers in India.

A few of the banned apps, like Baidu, Alipay and a few variations of the messaging app WeChat, are operated by China’s largest web firms, together with Tencent and Ant Monetary. A lot of them see India as vital to development.

Particulars: The federal government didn’t hyperlink the ban to the latest killing of an Indian soldier alongside the border, and mentioned it had obtained complaints that Indian customers’ knowledge had been stolen. Whereas the loss of life has been broadly reported in Indian information media, the federal government has not confirmed it or supplied particulars.

When you have four minutes, that is price it

A brand new tackle farming

The Vegetable Co. is a vertical farm — flourishing in a delivery container on the sting of a car parking zone, subsequent to a fuel station in Kuala Lumpur. Tightly packed cabinets with hydroponic lettuce, sprouts and different greens develop below LED lights.

As in-person purchasing wanes through the pandemic, the operation, primarily based in Malaysia, is one in all many small farms around the world promoting produce on to customers on-line, bypassing brick-and-mortar grocery shops. “Having recent greens delivered to the doorstep was such a reduction,” one buyer mentioned.

Right here’s what else is going on

Afghanistan peace course of: Officers mentioned that the last of thousands of Taliban prisoners are set to be freed, and that talks with the insurgents in Qatar will begin quickly. The Taliban had refused to begin negotiating an finish to the warfare till the discharge of the prisoners.

Slovakia homicide: After an eight-month trial, Marian Kocner, one of many nation’s most outstanding businessmen, was acquitted of ordering the 2018 killing of an investigative journalist that set off anticorruption protests.

Fb and the U.S. election: The social community mentioned Thursday it deliberate to bar any new political ads on its site within the week earlier than the Nov. three election to scale back voter disinformation.

Cattle ship: Rescue efforts had been persevering with to attempt to discover dozens of crew members of a livestock vessel that sank off the coast of Japan, with nearly 6,000 cows. Just one particular person survived.

Snapshot: Above, the Boughton sisters on Memphis, the place a neighbor had simply distributed free faculty lunches. Within the U.S., practically one in eight households doesn’t have sufficient to eat. This interactive report on food insecurity captures the routines of People struggling to feed their households because the pandemic takes away their jobs and threatens their well being.

What we’re studying: This Economist article about how Hollywood is tweaking its releases in China, from plot to promotional technique.

Now, a break from the information

Cook dinner: Creamy pasta with none of the cream. The key? Puréed corn and sautéed scallions, blended with a number of Parmesan and pink chile flakes. Lemon juice provides brightness to the summery dish.

Hear: We requested artists to decide on the 5 minutes or so they’d play to make their buddies fall in love with the candy, songful violin. Listen to their choices.

Do: Right here’s a information on what houseplants to purchase and how to care for them, from essentially the most reliable to the trickier varieties.

Have enjoyable staying at house, with a lot of concepts from our At Home collection on what to learn, cook dinner, watch and do.

And now for the Again Story on …

U.S. virus outlook: A really completely different vacation season

Donald McNeil, our infectious illnesses reporter, has been monitoring developments within the coronavirus outbreak within the U.S., the world’s worst with over six million circumstances and 185,00zero deaths. He spoke to our colleagues from the Coronavirus Briefing about what lies forward.

We’ve been warned a couple of “fall wave” for a very long time, however then we had a nasty summer time wave. What most worries you in regards to the fall?

Sure, autumn actually worries me. Outbreaks are exploding at schools all throughout the nation. There could also be fewer deaths as a result of college students are younger — however professors aren’t.

And shortly, chilly climate will drive folks indoors, the place research counsel you might be 20 instances extra prone to get contaminated. By midwinter, if we aren’t cautious, the loss of life toll might head again up towards its April apex.

How will celebrating the vacations be completely different this 12 months?

No American needs to listen to this, however consultants say it most likely gained’t be prudent to have large indoor household gatherings for Rosh Hashana, Thanksgiving or Christmas. It’s unhappy, however I don’t see a protected choice — particularly for households with a toddler away in school. When school cities grow to be epicenters, you actually don’t need college students to return house and unwittingly infect their households. And college students want to contemplate this: Sure, it’s depressing to overlook a household vacation — however might you forgive your self in case your grandmother died due to you?

What scientific developments are you following most carefully?

Scientists I discuss to are optimistic about monoclonal antibodies. One referred to as them “convalescent plasma on steroids.” The most effective antibodies are cloned and grown in cell broths. Small doses would possibly act like vaccines that defend for just a few weeks. In the event that they do, getting them to high-risk People — medical employees, nursing house sufferers and the households of the contaminated — might blunt the epidemic. However they will’t be grown in bulk rapidly or cheaply, and F.D.A. approval for prophylactic use is unsure.

That’s it for this briefing. See you subsequent time.

— Melina

Thanks
To Melissa Clark for the recipe, and to Theodore Kim and Jahaan Singh for the remainder of the break from the information. You may attain the workforce at briefing@nytimes.com.

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