More than 890,000 tests for coronavirus have been performed in the state of New York , over 300,000 of them were positive and of those more than 18,150 people died .
there have been 900,000 tests , of which there were 304,400 confirmed cases ( an increase of 4,700 from the day before ) in the state , and of those 18,321 people have died ( up 306 overnight ) .