WHO warns 'long way to go' in COVID-19 crisis as global deaths top 180,000

Nations around the world have been scrambling to fight the pandemic - which has killed more than 180,000 people and infected nearly 2.6 million worldwide - while desperately seeking ways to limit the devastating economic fallout.

Worst-hit region Europe saw its death toll climb to another grim milestone of 110,000, while fatalities in Italy, the hardest hit country behind the United States, topped 25,000.In Spain, which reported a slight increase for the second day running in the number of COVID-19 deaths, the government said it did not expect to lift its strict lockdown until mid-May.'SIGNIFICANT STEP'

The director of the US Centers for Disease Control also warned Americans to prepare for a more ferocious second round of outbreaks. "I want to stress that we are not only facing a global health pandemic, but also a global humanitarian catastrophe," WFP executive director David Beasley told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

"It would be wrong and unjust for Americans to be replaced with immigrant labour flown in from abroad," he said.

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