COVID-19 outbreak forced a delay in Saturday’s provincial election in nearly half the province’s ridings.Liberal Leader and incumbent Premier Andrew Furey told reporters Thursday that his caretaker government, which by convention exercises limited powers, will remain in place until the election can be fully held.Chief electoral officer Bruce Chaulk announced Thursday that with mounting COVID-19 cases in the St.
John’s region, in-person voting would be postponed across the Avalon Peninsula for at least two weeks. N.L. chief medical officer warns of complacency as province records 100 new COVID-19 cases With daily COVID-19 case counts nearly doubling every day this week, Chaulk warned that the voting delay could be longer than two weeks,.