IMF official warns coronavirus will weigh on some economies for years
The Fund has provided some $90 Bn in total financing to 79 countries since the corona outbreak
Latin American and Caribbean economies are the hardest hit in the world by the pandemic
IMF is in talks with G20 economies about extending halt in bilateral debt service payments
Experts and Govt officials are backing extension of G20 initiative to 2021
IMF is also in talks with rich countries to fund two specific Fund programs that lend to poor countries
