Coronavirus news – live: World faces ‘worst crisis’ since WW2 says UN as Spain death toll passes 9,000 and ‘too many’ Londoners not staying home
The world is facing the worst crisis since the Second World War, the UN’s secretary-general has warned, as it battles a coronavirus pandemic threatening people in every country.
Antonio Guterres warned the outbreak will bring a recession “that probably has no parallel in recent past” as he called for a stronger and more effective global response.
Meanwhile, the UK, Italy, Spain, France and Russia record their highest daily death toll from Covid-19. Deaths in the UK rose 381 to 1,789, a 27 per cent day-on-day increase.
It comes as a British national was among four people to have died on a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship at the centre of a bitter dispute over plans to disembark passengers in the US.
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