Isaac Lopez, 19, pulls down the door of one of his father's Tacos El Tajin food trucks after a slow day of selling food to the few people out and about in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. (Photo: AP)

NEW YORK, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 270,000 on Friday, reaching 270,537 as of 11:32am (1532 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

A total of 3,877,914 cases have been reported from over 180 countries and regions across the world, according to the CSSE.

The United States reported the most COVID-19 deaths at 75,852 among 1,259,777 cases. Other countries with over 20,000 fatalities included Spain, Italy, Britain and France, the CSSE data showed.