Less than 655,000 tests for coronavirus have been performed in the state of New York , under 255,000 of them tested positive , and of those less than 15,000 people have died .
there have been 649,325 tests , of which there were 251,690 confirmed cases ( an increase of 4,178 from the day before ) in the state , and of those 14,828 people have died ( up 471 overnight ) .