New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus has officially eclipsed the number of those killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11, health officials have said.
At least 3,202 people have died in New York from Covid-19, according to the count released by the city. The deadliest terror attack on US soil killed 2,753 people in the city and 2,977 overall, when hijacked planes slammed into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001.
Across the US, the death toll reached about 11,000, with around 370,000 confirmed infections.
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