More than 1 million Wisconsin residents — or roughly one in six — have now been tested for COVID-19, according to the state health department.
Of those, 57,779 have tested positive, including 839 new cases reported Thursday by the Department of Health Services — constituting 4.7% of 18,000 people newly tested.
Thursday marked the second time in a week that positivity was below 5% after not being so low since July 7.
The state's seven-day average of new cases also fell to its lowest level since July 15 (810), even though Thursday's increase would have been a single-day record as recently as July 10.
Eight more people were said to have died fighting the virus, for a total of 978.