More than 700,000 tests for coronavirus have been performed in the state of New York , over 268,000 of them were positive and of those more than 16,000 people have died .
there have been 695,920 tests , of which there were 263,460 confirmed cases ( an increase of 6,244 from the day before ) in the state , and of those 15,740 people have died ( up 438 overnight ) .