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A familiar name will help design and bankroll the Empire State’s coronavirus-tracing program: Mike Bloomberg.

Gov. Cuomo announced on Wednesday that the former mayor, failed Democratic presidential candidate and media billionaire would step in to ramp up the initiative in the span of weeks — as deaths statewide eclipsed 15,000.

“Mayor Bloomberg will help coordinate the entire effort,” Cuomo said at an Albany press briefing. “He has tremendous insight, both governmentally and from a private-sector business perspective.”

The tracing initiative will start with people who have tested positive for the coronavirus, and painstakingly identify those with whom they’ve crossed paths, to find previously unknown cases.

“This has to happen,” said Cuomo. “You don’t have a month to plan and do this. You have weeks to get this up and running.”

Bloomberg (below) will help make it happen, both through a contribution that Cuomo aide Melissa ­DeRosa said was “upwards of $10 million,” and via the Bloomberg-backed public-health program at Johns Hopkins University.

“He’s helping us to design the . . . operational and technological components of our contact-tracing program,” said DeRosa. “And they, in partnership with us, are creating an online curriculum to train the tracers, to recruit them, to interview, to perform the background checks.”

Cuomo could not provide an exact timeline for when the effort — which will be coordinated with New Jersey and Connecticut — would be fully operational.

The governor revealed Bloomberg’s role hours after Mayor de Blasio announced the Big Apple’s own expanded tracing initiative, set to launch in May.

Both the city and state tracing efforts are banking on promises from the feds to provide assistance in dramatically expanding testing availability and the capacity of laboratories to process the results.

Cuomo said late Tuesday that President Trump had promised to aid the Empire State’s effort to double its testing capacity to an estimated 40,000 COVID-19 checks per day, but warned the ramp-up could take weeks.

“If we don’t get the testing, then all the other pieces don’t come together,” de Blasio said. “We’re going to keep looking under every stone to get the quantity of testing we need.”

Hizzoner during a Wednesday-morning press conference rolled out his own plan to “ultimately defeat” the coronavirus in the five boroughs, telling reporters the new campaign would begin with ramped-up testing in the Big Apple’s public housing.

“The residents of NYCHA have been hit particularly hard,” de Blasio said. “We want to do more to help you through this crisis.”

The first three testing centers will be located near NYCHA developments: the Cumberland Health Center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn; the Belvis Health Center in Mott Haven, Bronx; and the Gouverneur Health Center on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. De Blasio promised that the three facilities will be open by Friday.

And beginning next week, three developments will receive their own dedicated testing centers, de Blasio added: the Jonathan Williams Plaza development in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the St. Nicholas Houses in Harlem and the Woodside Houses in Queens.

Those efforts come on the heels of a joint state-city announcement this week that eight city developments will get testing sites, as well as caches of critical supplies, including hand sanitizer, cloth face coverings and gloves. That gear will be distributed starting next week, de Blasio said Wednesday. The NYCHA testing is the beachhead of City Hall’s larger battle plan for the next phase of the fight against the coronavirus.

Starting next month, de Blasio said, public buildings will be converted into centers where New Yorkers by the thousands can be tested for the disease.

“If you test negative you will get instructions on how to protect yourself,” de Blasio said. “If you test positive then we get you care right away.”

The mayor and governor laid out the next steps as the latest tallies from health officials showed the conoravirus’s spread continued to slow — largely thanks to stay-at-home orders — and the tremendous toll it has taken on those who have contracted the illness.

In the Big Apple alone, 14,996 people who tested positive or exhibited COVID-19 symptoms have died as of Tuesday, a jump of 569 reported fatalities in just a single day, the latest city statistics showed.

Statewide, total hospitalizations continued their gradual decline, now down to 15,508 from 16,044 on Tuesday.