More than 810,000 tests for coronavirus have been performed in the state of New York , over 290,000 of them were positive and of those more than 17,100 people died .
there have been 805,350 tests , of which there were 288,045 confirmed cases ( an increase of 5,902 from the day before ) in the state , and of those 16,966 people have died ( up 367 overnight ) .