New York state can now get the results of coronavirus tests in as little as 12 hours “from start to finish” — as opposed to several days, Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed Monday.

Cuomo said tests are turned around in the state in a matter of hours, including for the state’s first confirmed case.

“Within about 12 hours the results were turned around from start to finish,” Cuomo said at a press conference on the 39-year-old Manhattan woman who tested positive over the weekend.

The governor said the state getting the green light from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the weekend to conduct the tests was a game-changer in preventing the spread of the virus.

“Testing is very important and that’s why the CDC, the federal government, allowing us to test is a very big deal,” Cuomo said. “It will have a dramatic effect on how quickly we can mobilize and respond.”

States previously had to send samples for testing to the CDC lab in Atlanta, slowing the response in containing infected patients.

“It was a big break when the federal government allowed us to do our testing because now we are in charge of the system ourselves,” Cuomo said, adding that the testing kits are being provided by the feds.

The governor said they’re now sending samples to Wadsworth Lab in Albany — but they’re hoping in the coming days to get more labs ready to test for the virus.

“I would like to get a goal of 1,000 tests per day capacity within one week because the more testing, the better,” Cuomo said. “Once you can test a person that’s positive, then you can isolate that person so they don’t infect other people.”

Throughout the country, the number of infections ticked upward to at least 80 as more states became equipped with testing kits.

Dr. Nancy Messonier, the CDC’s chief of respiratory diseases, said the agency’s goal was to have “every state and local health department” doing its own testing by the end of the week.

“We are working as quickly as we can to get CDC test kits to state and local public health authorities,” Messonier said Friday. “However, during any infectious disease response, there is a great need for test manufacturers to rapidly make testing available in clinics, in hospitals, and at the bedside.”