The number of people in the US killed by the coronavirus surpassed 150,000 on Wednesday, according to new data.

Americans account for nearly a quarter of the more-than 660,000 people killed by the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Brazil has the second-highest number of coronavirus deaths — around 88,500 — followed by the United Kingdom, which has almost 46,000 fatalities.

The US nationwide death toll is more than three times the number of Americans killed in World War I.

More than 4.3 million people in the US have contracted the virus so far, according to Johns Hopkins, out of nearly 17 million cases worldwide.