Suu Kyi party set to win Myanmar vote; huge turnout despite Covid-19 cases going past 60,000


People wearing protective masks lining up to cast their ballots for the general election at a polling station in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday (Nov 8, 2020). - Reuters

YANGON, Nov 8 (AP): Voters in Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon, turned up early Sunday in large numbers to vote in nationwide elections that are expected to return to power the party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won the last elections in 2015 in a landslide, ending more than five decades of military-dictated rule in the country.

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