More than 750,000 tests for coronavirus have been performed in the state of New York , over 278,000 of them were positive and of those more than 16,400 people died .
there have been 777,568 tests , of which there were 282,143 confirmed cases ( an increase of 10,553 from the day before ) in the state , and of those 16,599 people have died ( up 437 overnight ) .