Over 3,000 people have died in US from coronavirus, surpassing 9/11 death toll

The coronavirus death toll in the US rocketed to more than 3,000 Tuesday morning, surpassing the number of people who died in the 9/11 terror attacks.

COVID-19 has killed at least 3,170 Americans, surpassing the 2,977 victims who were killed in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and four hijacked planes on September 11, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.

The 9/11 attacks had been the deadliest event in the continental US since the Japanese killed 2,403 Americans at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

The virus death toll also put the pandemic ahead of 2017’s Hurricane Maria, which killed an estimated 2,975 in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

New York, New Jersey and Washington state have led the country in highest death tolls from the virus while Hawaii and Wyoming have reported no fatalities.

There have been at least 164,700 confirmed COVID-19 patients since the country’s first case in January was detected in Washington state.

There have been cases from every state, the District of Columbia and several US territories, as well as among repatriated citizens.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert on the White House task force, predicted Sunday that the pandemic could infect more than a million Americans and kill up to 200,000.

“Looking at what we’re seeing now, I would say between 100,000 and 200,000 [deaths] … I mean, we’re going to have millions of cases,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The virus, which initially emerged in China in December, has rapidly spread around the globe, sickening more than 800,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins.

Worldwide, there have been at least 39,000 deaths from the dangerous bug while scientists race to find a cure.