Less than 680,000 tests for coronavirus have been performed in the state of New York , under 260,000 of them tested positive , and of those less than 15,500 people have died .
there have been 669,982 tests , of which there were 257,216 confirmed cases ( an increase of 5,526 from the day before ) in the state , and of those 15,302 people have died ( up 474 overnight ) .