Berlin | It is time for China to move away from massive lockdowns and toward a more targeted approach to COVID-19, the head of the International Monetary Fund said days after widespread protests broke out, a change that would ease the impact to a world economy already struggling with high inflation, an energy crisis and disrupted food supply.

IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva urged a “recalibration” of China’s tough zero-COVID approach aimed at isolating every case “exactly because of the impact it has on both people and on the economy”.

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