Hong Kong should weigh delaying election

Bloomberg

Hong Kong should consider postponing the city’s leadership election next month, a Chinese lawmaker said, in the most high-profile call yet for suspending the vote amid a surge in Covid cases.
Tam Yiu-chung, Hong Kong’s sole representative member on China’s top legislative body, told a radio program that potential candidates might need to focus on containing the outbreak.
Tam, a member of the National People’s Congress’s powerful Standing Committee, cited remarks a day earlier by President Xi Jinping instructing city leaders to make fighting the pandemic their top priority.
“The chief executive election might affect some potential candidates who might
have responsibilities in anti-epidemic work,” Tam told Commercial Radio, adding a study of alternative arrangements should be made.