New York needs more face masks to beat back a potential coronavirus outbreak, city and state officials said Wednesday.

“Already our public health officials have distributed 1.5 million masks in the city of New York. That is a very good start but we need more. We have requests out for an additional minimum of 300,000 surgical masks,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference on the city’s response to the virus sweeping the globe.

“To guarantee that these arrive in New York City promptly, we will need federal assistance. So I’m calling on the federal government to help us and all other localities to get the masks we need working with the private sector providers.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo echoed the sentiment at his own press conference an hour earlier, explaining that part of the problem is that many mask manufacturers are based in China, the virus’s epicenter.

“Obviously there is an international rush now to get the right equipment, the right masks, gloves, et cetera. Turns out that China is one of the main manufacturers of this equipment, which obviously makes it a little more complicated and problematic,” Cuomo said.

Many pharmacies across the Big Apple told The Post they’ve been sold out of masks for weeks — or can’t keep up with demand.

“Today it has been crazy, 70 people have come in to ask for masks, and we get calls constantly,” said Justin O’Connor, who works in the surgical department of C.O. Bigelow pharmacy in the West Village.

“We ran out of surgical masks three weeks ago, we’ve gotten three small shipments since, 200 to 500 masks each time. If they come in around 2 p.m. we’re sold out by 6 p.m”

Cuomo also said he’s asked the legislature to appropriate an extra $40 million in emergency funding to the state DOH to make sure they can get all the supplies they need.

A day after the Centers for Disease Control warned that Americans should prepare for the flu-like virus to spread through communities nationwide, both Cuomo and de Blasio said it’s only a matter of time before that happens here.

“New York is the front door internationally. We have people coming here from across the world,” Cuomo said.

“No one should be surprised when we have positive cases in New York.”

The comments come as the global spread of the virus rapidly moves west, with a total of 40 countries, plus Hong Kong, reporting at least 80,239 confirmed cases with new hot spots identified in Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom, according to the World Health Organization.

At least 14 confirmed infections have been reported in the US but none in New York.

As of Wednesday, the New York State Department of Health reported only one person, located outside of the Big Apple, is awaiting test results for the virus. A total of 26 people, six in the city, have already tested negative since the outbreak began.

On Wednesday, health officials in Nassau County announced that 83 people are undergoing a two-week voluntary quarantine because they traveled to China or had contact with someone infected with the virus.

Additional reporting by Elizabeth Rosner and Natalie O’Neill