This article is misleading but still important to look at. IMF and World Bank cancel debts for poorer countries. Following is a disclaimer.

“Regarding the IMF, the IMF isn't calling for all debt to be cancelled, or even all IMF debt to be canceled. They are using the "Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust", a fund set up in the wake of Ebola to allow partial debt forgiveness in the event of pandemics, to cancel 6 months of debt payments for 25 very poor countries (totaling about $500 million, or about 0.25% of the total amount the IMF has in loans to all countries at the moment). This has largely exhausted the CCRT, and the IMF has called for about a billion dollars in new funding to continue to deal with the corona virus crisis as it evolves, but they are not doing this because they feel that the loans to this countries were "wrong" or "predatory", but rather because they understand that given current circumstances it is best to lose a few months of debt payments rather than to force a default.“
[imf2020.org]