Just a trickle of shoppers wandered through Macy’s on Herald Square in New York an hour after it opened. Many stores reported—or planned for—smaller crowds on Black Friday, reflecting concerns about further spread of the coronavirus. It will still likely prove the busiest shopping day of the year.

Iranian state TV announced Wednesday the government released Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a 33-year-old British-Australian academic detained in Iran for more than two years, in exchange for three Iranians held abroad. Officials in Thailand said they transferred three Iranians involved in a 2012 foiled bomb attack back to Tehran. Moore-Gilbert arrived at the airport in Canberra on Friday afternoon and will quarantine before reentering the community, said Foreign Minister Marise Payne.

The city sheriff will set up in random locations and stop cars to make sure people are following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s emergency travel order and quarantining when entering from certain states. The New York City sheriff’s office will announce the locations for a given day on its official Twitter page. The city describes the stops as “an educational tool,” but violation of the travel order can carry fines.

The UN Security Council met on Tuesday over the spiraling conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave Tigray’s leaders 72 hours, which end Wednesday, to surrender before a tank attack on the region’s capital city of Mekele, with a population of half a million. The military said it would show civilians no mercy if they didn’t leave the area before the assault.

More than 2 million people went through screening at U.S. airports on Friday and Saturday, the Transportation Security Administration said. That’s far lower than in previous years, but it’s a large number during the pandemic and only the second time since mid-March that more than 1 million people went through daily airport screenings.

On average, more than 1,300 Americans are dying of the coronavirus each day, and more than 83,000 were hospitalized on Sunday. That’s the highest daily death count since late May. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., became the second senator and eighth member of Congress to announce he tested positive for the virus this week. He said Friday he was isolating at home with “very mild symptoms.” Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, also tested positive last week and was quarantining but said he did not have any symptoms.

At least 37 people have died during protests after the Ugandan government arrested opposition presidential candidate and musician Bobi Wine, police said Friday. Authorities have arrested and detained some 350 people in the capital of Kampala.

Why are they protesting? Authorities detained Wine, 38, on Wednesday for allegedly breaking COVID-19 rules by addressing more than 200 people. He has gone to jail several times in recent years and has called for President Yoweri Museveni to retire after leading the country for 36 years.