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SINGAPORE: China's zero-COVID policy will hold back a full air travel recovery in the Asia-Pacific region, a top airline industry group warned on Tuesday (May 17), adding to calls for Beijing to ease its hardline stance. The world's second-biggest economy is seeking to stamp out the coronavirus entirely, with rapid lockdowns and mass testing, and the measures have hammered both domestic and international air travel. The aviation sector's recovery in Asia was already relatively slow, and Willie Walsh, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) chief, warned Beijing's approach made the picture bleaker. "It has been a brutal two years for...
