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 872,500 tests , of which there were 299,700 confirmed cases ( an increase of 4,600 from the day before ) in the state , and of those 18,015 people have died ( up 377 overnight ) .