New York’s surging death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has so dramatically eclipsed the Sept. 11 terror attacks that Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he can’t even describe the devastation.

“9/11 was supposed to be the darkest day in New York for a generation,” Cuomo said during his daily news conference in Albany.

“We lost 2,753 lives on 9/11. We’ve lost over 7,000 lives to this crisis. That is so shocking and painful and breathtaking. I can’t — I don’t even have the words for it.”

Cuomo also said that while Sept. 11 “gave us a sense of vulnerability that we never had before,” with COVID-19, “this economy has been shut down tighter.”

“On the numbers, this is much for more consequential for the economy than 9/11,” he said.

New York’s official death toll from the coronavirus rose to 7,067 overnight as the state saw a record 799 patients die, Cuomo said.

In New York City, official statistics released Thursday morning showed that 4,426 people have died from the coronavirus and the number of confirmed cases has grown to to 84,373.

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