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Jacinda Ardern orders delay in New Zealand poll as new Covid-19 cases reported

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With nearly a third of New Zealand’s five-million people under lockdown in Auckland, parties have complained that they cannot campaign

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern leaves a media conference at Parliament on August 17 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/HAGEN HOPKINS

“Ultimately, October 17 ... provides sufficient time for parties to plan around the range of circumstances we will be campaigning under,” Ardern said at a news conference. The election was scheduled for September 19 and New Zealand law requires it to be held by November 21. Advance voting will now start on October 3.The leader of the populist New Zealand First party delivered government to Labour through a coalition deal after no party won a majority at the 2017 election.

Her rivals are hoping Ardern loses some of her appeal once economic hardships caused by the lockdown begin to bite. Tests of surfaces in the facility are under way to identify the genome sequence. Authorities are also investigating if there is any link to an Americold facility in the Australian city of Melbourne, where Covid-19 cases have surged in recent weeks.Another possible source is the quarantine system for New Zealanders returning from overseas.

 

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