Hong Kong Postpones Choosing Its Next Leader as Covid-19 Surges

HONG KONG—The city’s top official said she was postponing the process for choosing Hong Kong’s next chief executive as the government tackles the biggest coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said she invoked emergency powers to postpone a March 27 election by a committee of less than 1,500 mostly pro-Beijing figures to May 8. Mrs. Lam’s first five-year term as leader ends June 30.