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| Coronavirus, Global Tourism, India’s Free Press: Your Friday Briefing | Coronavirus, Global Tourism, India’s Free Press: Your Friday Briefing |
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| In Australia, the authorities have threatened people sitting alone drinking coffee with six months of jail; in the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the police to shoot anyone who “causes commotion” after protesters demanded food. | In Australia, the authorities have threatened people sitting alone drinking coffee with six months of jail; in the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the police to shoot anyone who “causes commotion” after protesters demanded food. |
| With orders to stay home increasingly widespread, countries, states and localities are grappling with how policing should work when it’s not clear what activities should be allowed. | With orders to stay home increasingly widespread, countries, states and localities are grappling with how policing should work when it’s not clear what activities should be allowed. |
| Some police departments are trying to be lenient to avoid stressing out residents in hard times; others are fully cracking down. | Some police departments are trying to be lenient to avoid stressing out residents in hard times; others are fully cracking down. |
| Context: Severe crackdowns may amplify policing problems that had already existed. Some police forces are decimated by the virus. And countries with more autocratic governments have been quicker to use antagonistic tactics. | Context: Severe crackdowns may amplify policing problems that had already existed. Some police forces are decimated by the virus. And countries with more autocratic governments have been quicker to use antagonistic tactics. |
| Here are the latest updates. We’ve also updated our maps of the pandemic to offer more detail. | Here are the latest updates. We’ve also updated our maps of the pandemic to offer more detail. |
| In other developments: | In other developments: |
| A record 6.6 million people filed new unemployment claims in the U.S. last week, the government reported on Thursday, putting the two-week count of the newly jobless close to a staggering 10 million. Job losses around the world are shaking the global economy. | |
| Layoffs in global tourism are mounting at the rate of one million a day, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council. The industry could lose as much as $2.1 trillion by the end of the year. | |
| In a sudden shift, the U.S. and China have decided to put an end to weeks of public sniping over the outbreak and to look for ways to cooperate to slow the contagion. | |
| The leaders of several former Soviet states are playing down the severity of the pandemic, with some promoting folk remedies. The president of Belarus recommends vodka and a sauna. | |
| The state of New York, at the center of the U.S. outbreak, is in danger of depleting its stockpile of critically needed ventilators in just six days, the governor has warned. | |
| The Times is providing free access to much of our coronavirus coverage, and our Coronavirus Briefing newsletter — like all of our newsletters — is free. Please consider supporting our journalism with a subscription. | The Times is providing free access to much of our coronavirus coverage, and our Coronavirus Briefing newsletter — like all of our newsletters — is free. Please consider supporting our journalism with a subscription. |
| Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has tried to control the country’s vast array of news media like no other Indian leader in decades, according to journalists. | Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has tried to control the country’s vast array of news media like no other Indian leader in decades, according to journalists. |
| With the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Modi has grown even more blatant, telling top news executives just before he announced the lockdown on the entire country that they should publish “inspiring and positive stories” about his government's efforts. | With the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Modi has grown even more blatant, telling top news executives just before he announced the lockdown on the entire country that they should publish “inspiring and positive stories” about his government's efforts. |
| His ministers have leaned on business leaders to cut off support to independent media, a bulwark for the world’s biggest democracy. Foreign journalists are barred from centers of unrest, or have trouble with visas. | His ministers have leaned on business leaders to cut off support to independent media, a bulwark for the world’s biggest democracy. Foreign journalists are barred from centers of unrest, or have trouble with visas. |
| Major stories, like those about rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir, sometimes go uncovered because of fear and a culture of retaliation. | Major stories, like those about rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir, sometimes go uncovered because of fear and a culture of retaliation. |
| Context: The prime minister has tried to use the media to build a cult of personality as the nation’s savior. Senior government officials have put pressure on news outlets to ignore the uglier side of his nationalist party’s campaign to transform India from a religiously diverse and tolerant country into an assertively Hindu one. | Context: The prime minister has tried to use the media to build a cult of personality as the nation’s savior. Senior government officials have put pressure on news outlets to ignore the uglier side of his nationalist party’s campaign to transform India from a religiously diverse and tolerant country into an assertively Hindu one. |
| Quotable: “A large section of the Indian media,” said one leading news anchor in India, “has become a lap dog, not a watchdog.” | Quotable: “A large section of the Indian media,” said one leading news anchor in India, “has become a lap dog, not a watchdog.” |
| A few years ago, the Market Three slum in Manila was terrorized under President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal crackdown on drugs and crime. Now, a government plan to overhaul a nearby port threatens to force the residents from their homes and strip them of what little they have left. | A few years ago, the Market Three slum in Manila was terrorized under President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal crackdown on drugs and crime. Now, a government plan to overhaul a nearby port threatens to force the residents from their homes and strip them of what little they have left. |
| Our reporter and photographer take you inside the slum, where residents have no one to rely on but their neighbors. | Our reporter and photographer take you inside the slum, where residents have no one to rely on but their neighbors. |
| U.S.-Iran: President Trump warned Iran against using its proxy forces to attack U.S. troops, and said his administration had “very good information” that Iran-backed militias were planning more assaults, prompting senior Democrats to caution Mr. Trump against attacking Iran without consulting Congress. | U.S.-Iran: President Trump warned Iran against using its proxy forces to attack U.S. troops, and said his administration had “very good information” that Iran-backed militias were planning more assaults, prompting senior Democrats to caution Mr. Trump against attacking Iran without consulting Congress. |
| Pakistan: Ahmed Omar Sheikh, a British-born militant, is expected to be freed soon after a court in Karachi overturned his murder conviction and death sentence in the 2002 killing of the U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, ruling that the evidence only proved his role in Mr. Pearl’s abduction, lawyers said. | Pakistan: Ahmed Omar Sheikh, a British-born militant, is expected to be freed soon after a court in Karachi overturned his murder conviction and death sentence in the 2002 killing of the U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, ruling that the evidence only proved his role in Mr. Pearl’s abduction, lawyers said. |
| Refugees: A European Union court ruled that Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic had violated their obligations as members of the bloc when they refused to take in their fair share of asylum-seekers as Greece and Italy were being overwhelmed at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015. The E.U. authorities made no mention of any penalty. | Refugees: A European Union court ruled that Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic had violated their obligations as members of the bloc when they refused to take in their fair share of asylum-seekers as Greece and Italy were being overwhelmed at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015. The E.U. authorities made no mention of any penalty. |
| Snapshot: Above, Great Orme Kashmiri goats on the streets of Llandudno, Wales. Animals — including coyotes in California and rats everywhere — have ventured out as people shelter indoors. | Snapshot: Above, Great Orme Kashmiri goats on the streets of Llandudno, Wales. Animals — including coyotes in California and rats everywhere — have ventured out as people shelter indoors. |
| What we’re listening to: This short podcast from Scientific American on what linguists say could be the development of a new accent in a research station in Antarctica. Stephen Hiltner, an editor on the Travel desk, calls it “peculiar and mind-bending.” | What we’re listening to: This short podcast from Scientific American on what linguists say could be the development of a new accent in a research station in Antarctica. Stephen Hiltner, an editor on the Travel desk, calls it “peculiar and mind-bending.” |
| Cook: You can round out just about any roasted root vegetables with chickpeas and yogurt, which give the dish a luscious creamy texture. | Cook: You can round out just about any roasted root vegetables with chickpeas and yogurt, which give the dish a luscious creamy texture. |
| Play: When you look back on your memories of self-quarantine, perhaps you’ll remember today as the one where you read Seth Schiesel’s introduction to the world of interactive online gaming and started your relationship with Red Dead Redemption 2 or King of Dragon Pass. | Play: When you look back on your memories of self-quarantine, perhaps you’ll remember today as the one where you read Seth Schiesel’s introduction to the world of interactive online gaming and started your relationship with Red Dead Redemption 2 or King of Dragon Pass. |
| Read: Elisabeth Egan makes a beautiful argument for reading aloud to your family, and suggests starting with “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,” by Charlie Mackesy. | Read: Elisabeth Egan makes a beautiful argument for reading aloud to your family, and suggests starting with “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,” by Charlie Mackesy. |
| Watch: Travel the world without leaving your house, with our 18 favorite TV shows for vicarious exploration. | Watch: Travel the world without leaving your house, with our 18 favorite TV shows for vicarious exploration. |
| Here’s our full collection of ideas on what to read, cook, watch and do while staying at home. | Here’s our full collection of ideas on what to read, cook, watch and do while staying at home. |
| Our most recent episode of “The Daily” podcast features Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading U.S. expert on infectious diseases. Dr. Fauci, the Trump administration’s strongest proponent of social distancing rules, has become a target of online conspiracy theorists who accuse him of trying to undermine President Trump during an election year. | Our most recent episode of “The Daily” podcast features Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading U.S. expert on infectious diseases. Dr. Fauci, the Trump administration’s strongest proponent of social distancing rules, has become a target of online conspiracy theorists who accuse him of trying to undermine President Trump during an election year. |
| Below is a condensed version of Dr. Fauci’s conversation with Michael Barbaro, edited for clarity. | Below is a condensed version of Dr. Fauci’s conversation with Michael Barbaro, edited for clarity. |
| At what point did you realize that the coronavirus was going to be of an entirely different speed and scale than AIDS, Ebola, SARS, H1N1 or swine flu? | At what point did you realize that the coronavirus was going to be of an entirely different speed and scale than AIDS, Ebola, SARS, H1N1 or swine flu? |
| It became clear to me that we could potentially be dealing with a global catastrophe somewhere in the middle of January, when it was clear that China was seeing not only extremely efficient transmissibility, but also a disturbing degree of morbidity and mortality. | It became clear to me that we could potentially be dealing with a global catastrophe somewhere in the middle of January, when it was clear that China was seeing not only extremely efficient transmissibility, but also a disturbing degree of morbidity and mortality. |
| It very much feels like you are a general in this war, in this moment. So what is a typical day like for you? Starting at what I can only assume is some ungodly hour of the morning. | It very much feels like you are a general in this war, in this moment. So what is a typical day like for you? Starting at what I can only assume is some ungodly hour of the morning. |
| You’re right. We are in a war. | You’re right. We are in a war. |
| You get up, there’s a lot of people who need information, which is the reason I’m talking to you right now. There are journalists, there are congressmen, there are governors, there are legislators, there are people in the federal government that constantly need briefing. | You get up, there’s a lot of people who need information, which is the reason I’m talking to you right now. There are journalists, there are congressmen, there are governors, there are legislators, there are people in the federal government that constantly need briefing. |
| I also am running a very large institute that’s responsible for making the vaccines and for developing the drugs. So I come in for a couple of hours, get things on the right track here, and then I spend more than half the day at the White House with various meetings. I’m with the vice president for hours at a time. I see the president himself at least an hour a day and maybe more. And then I go back home and I have a thousand things to do. | I also am running a very large institute that’s responsible for making the vaccines and for developing the drugs. So I come in for a couple of hours, get things on the right track here, and then I spend more than half the day at the White House with various meetings. I’m with the vice president for hours at a time. I see the president himself at least an hour a day and maybe more. And then I go back home and I have a thousand things to do. |
| And then you’re lucky if you get to bed before midnight and then you get up at 4 or 5 in the morning. | And then you’re lucky if you get to bed before midnight and then you get up at 4 or 5 in the morning. |
| What are some of your biggest focuses now? | What are some of your biggest focuses now? |
| My biggest concern is that we now have a 30-day extension of the guideline mitigation. And we’ve got to get the American people to really appreciate that. | My biggest concern is that we now have a 30-day extension of the guideline mitigation. And we’ve got to get the American people to really appreciate that. |
| We should be prepared to adequately address the inevitable rebound that you will see once you start pulling back on the restrictions and the mitigations. | We should be prepared to adequately address the inevitable rebound that you will see once you start pulling back on the restrictions and the mitigations. |
| I had a very interesting conversation just this morning with colleagues from literally all over the world on the weekly telephone conference call that the W.H.O. sponsors. And it was interesting to me that some of the most cogent concerns of people from different countries, I mean all over — European, African, Australian, Canadian — was that we need to make sure we keep our eye on the balance of, if you’re too stringent in things like lockdowns and keeping people under wraps for a long period of time, you may have the unintended consequence of triggering, from an economic and societal standpoint, such a disruption that you get things like poverty and health issues unrelated to the coronavirus. | I had a very interesting conversation just this morning with colleagues from literally all over the world on the weekly telephone conference call that the W.H.O. sponsors. And it was interesting to me that some of the most cogent concerns of people from different countries, I mean all over — European, African, Australian, Canadian — was that we need to make sure we keep our eye on the balance of, if you’re too stringent in things like lockdowns and keeping people under wraps for a long period of time, you may have the unintended consequence of triggering, from an economic and societal standpoint, such a disruption that you get things like poverty and health issues unrelated to the coronavirus. |
| Thank youTo Melissa Clark for the recipe and Theodore Kim and Jahaan Singh for rest of the break from the news. You can reach the team at briefing@nytimes.com. | Thank youTo Melissa Clark for the recipe and Theodore Kim and Jahaan Singh for rest of the break from the news. You can reach the team at briefing@nytimes.com. |
| P.S.• Besides “The Daily,” with Dr. Anthony Fauci, we’re listening to the “Modern Love” podcast. This week it features the voices of readers from around the world, talking about how the coronavirus has affected their relationships.• Here’s our Mini Crossword, and a clue: Subtle insult (three letters). You can find all our puzzles here.• Jenna Wortham, a writer for The Times Magazine who co-hosts our “Still Processing” podcast, spoke to Vanity Fair about her working-from-home routine. | P.S.• Besides “The Daily,” with Dr. Anthony Fauci, we’re listening to the “Modern Love” podcast. This week it features the voices of readers from around the world, talking about how the coronavirus has affected their relationships.• Here’s our Mini Crossword, and a clue: Subtle insult (three letters). You can find all our puzzles here.• Jenna Wortham, a writer for The Times Magazine who co-hosts our “Still Processing” podcast, spoke to Vanity Fair about her working-from-home routine. |