Less than 750,000 tests for coronavirus have been performed in the state of New York , under 278,000 of them were positive and of those less than 16,400 people died .
there have been 730,656 tests , of which there were 271,590 confirmed cases ( an increase of 8,130 from the day before ) in the state , and of those 16,162 people have died ( up 422 overnight ) .