More than 300 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Wisconsin. It never had so many cases confirmed in one day.

But that fact is tempered by another: The state never had so many test results in one day.

Wisconsin has now found 5,356 patients infected by the coronavirus since early February. There were 5 more deaths confirmed in the past 24 hours, bringing the state's death toll to 262. Four of the deaths were in Milwaukee County.

The 304 new cases were confirmed in 3,421 tests completed between Thursday and Friday afternoon. That's about twice as many tests as the state got back any day this week except Thursday.

The number of positive results was less than 9% of those tests, meaning Wisconsin had two straight days of decline in the percentage of positive test results.

Positive results as a percentage of COVID-19 tests:

Monday: 10.68% (up 0.93)

Tuesday: 8.9% (down 1.77)

Wednesday: 11.93% (up 3.03)

Thursday: 9.58% (down 2.35)

Friday: 8.89% (down 0.69)

Gov. Tony Evers says the state must see more testing and a downward trajectory within a 14 day period before phasing out Safer at Home restrictions.

Evers' goal is to have at least 85,000 test results per week, or an average of more than 12,000 a day. Currently the state is using 48 labs for testing and their capacity is shy of 11,000 a day.

Hospital conditions

Currently there are 361 COVID-19 patients hospitalized, including 143 in ICU, and 308 are on mechanical ventilation.

In all, 1,353 patients have been hospitalized during their treatment. That's 35 more than Thursday, but as a percentage of total cases it's down again slightly.

Recovering Patients

Friday, DHS started reporting the number of patients who are considered recovered from the coronavirus. As of Thursday, April 23, the state had 2,313 recoveries, or 46 percent of patients.

To be considered recovered, patients must meet at least one of these criteria:

Documentation of resolved symptoms

Documentation of release from public health isolation

30 days since symptom onset or diagnosis

County-by-county cases

County-by-county

Counties with additional cases and/or deaths are indicated in bold text

Wisconsin

Adams - 4 cases (1 death)

Ashland - 2 cases

Barron - 6 cases

Bayfield - 3 cases (1 death)

Brown - 605 cases

(2 deaths)

Buffalo - 4 cases (1 death)

Burnett - 0 cases

Calumet - 7 cases

Chippewa - 20 cases

Clark - 19 cases

(1 death)

Columbia - 27 cases (1 death)

Crawford - 3 cases

Dane - 395 cases

(21 deaths)

Dodge - 21 cases

(1 death)

Door - 9 cases (1 death)

Douglas - 9 cases

Dunn - 9 cases

Eau Claire - 23 cases

Florence - 2 cases

Fond du Lac - 67 cases

(3 deaths)

Forest - 0 cases

Grant - 27 cases

(3 deaths)

Green - 10 cases

Green Lake - 1 case

Iowa - 7 cases

Iron - 2 cases (1 death)

Jackson - 12 cases (1 death)

Jefferson - 38 cases

Juneau - 11 cases (1 death)

Kenosha - 314 cases (7 deaths)

Kewaunee - 9 cases (1 death)

La Crosse - 25 cases

Lafayette - 4 cases

Langlade - 0 cases

Lincoln - 0 cases

Manitowoc - 9 cases

Marathon - 17 cases (1 death)

Marinette - 8 cases (1 death)

Marquette - 3 cases (1 death)

Menominee - 1 case

Milwaukee - 2,431 cases (154 deaths)

Monroe - 14 cases

Oconto - 5 cases

Oneida - 6 cases

Outagamie - 43 cases

(2 deaths)

Ozaukee - 80 cases (9 deaths)

Pepin - 0 cases

Pierce - 8 cases

Polk - 4 cases

Portage - 4 cases

Price - 1 case

Racine - 229 cases

(10 deaths)

Richland - 10 cases (1 death)

Rock - 120 cases

(4 deaths)

Rusk - 4 cases