Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday chose to delay New Zealand's national elections by four weeks. The country is dealing with a new coronavirus outbreak in its largest city, Auckland. The election that had been scheduled for September 19 will now be held on October 17. Ardern had the option of delaying the election for up to about two months under New Zealand law. Opposition parties had been requesting a delay after a virus outbreak in Auckland last week prompted the government to put the city into a two-week lockdown and halted election campaigning. Before the latest outbreak, New Zealand had gone 102 days without any known community transmission of the virus.