Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following location:

• Thursday, July 29, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Henrico West Health Department, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive, drive-thru event.

Appointments are not necessary, but can be made by calling the Richmond and Henrico COVID-19 Hotline at (804) 205-3501 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, or by registering online at https://bit.ly/RHHDCOVID.

Testing will be offered while test supplies last.

A list of area COVID-19 testing sites is online at https://www.vdh. virginia.gov/richmond-city/richmond-and-henrico-area-covid-19- testing-sites/

Want a COVID-19 vaccine?

The Richmond and Henrico health districts are offering free walk- up COVID-19 vaccines at the following locations:

• Thursday, July 29, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Washington Football Team Training Camp, 2401 W. Leigh St., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 9 to 11 a.m. – Care Advantage Inc. West End Office, 3201 Hungary Spring Road, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 1 to 3 p.m. – Care Advantage Inc. South Side Office, 10041 Midlothian Turnpike, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

• Friday, July 30, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Washington Football Team Training Camp, 2401 W. Leigh St., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 9 a.m. to noon – Henrico West Health Department Clinic, 8600 Dixon Powers Dr., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson; 1 to 3 p.m. – Charm School’s Study Hall –Southside, 4930 Forest Hill Ave., and East End Library, 1200 N. 25th St.

• Saturday, July 31, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Washington Football Team Training Camp, 2401 W. Leigh St., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Richmond Public Schools Summer Fest, Broad Rock Sports Complex, 4825 Old Warwick Road, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson; 4 to 7 p.m. – Mosby Summer Night Lights Even, 1400 Spotsylvania St., Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

• Tuesday, Aug. 3, noon to 2 p.m. – St. Andrews United Methodist Church, 9801 Fort King Road, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 2 to 4 p.m. – Deering Manor Apartments, 2720 Hopkins Road; 5 to 7 p.m. – St. Luke Apartments National Night Out, 3901 Pilots Lane, Building 98; 6 to 8 p.m. – Speaking Spirit Ministries Night Out, Hope Givers USA, 10124 Royerton Drive, Glen Allen, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

• Wednesday, Aug. 4, 9 to 11 a.m. – Aramark, 810 Cathedral Place, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson; 3 to 6 p.m. – George Wythe High School, 4314 Crutchfield St., Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Thursday, Aug. 5, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. – John Marshall High School Health Fair, 4225 Old Brook Road, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

• Friday, Aug. 6, 9 a.m. to noon – Henrico West Health Department Clinic, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

• Saturday, Aug. 7, Antioch Baptist Church, 1384 New Market Road, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson

Children ages 12 to 15 may only receive the Pfizer vaccine.

Appointments are not required, but individuals can schedule an appointment online at vax.rchd.com or by calling (804) 205-3501.

The number of COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Virginia and across the nation, with the highly contagious delta variant responsible for many of the cases among the unvaccinated.

In response, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people in localities that are at high risk for community transmission wear masks indoors regardless of whether they are vaccinated.

Those high-risk places include cities and counties that are listed on the CDC’s transmission data tracker website as having “substantial” levels of transmission. In Central Virginia, that includes Chesterfield, Hanover, New Kent, Charles City, Prince George, Dinwiddie, King William, Amelia and Nottoway counties.

Richmond and Henrico are listed as having “moderate” levels of transmission.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced this week that it will require 115,000 of its frontline health care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, making it the first agency to do so.

Earlier this week, 60 medical groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, urged all health care facilities to require workers to get vaccinated.

Virginia’s seven-day positivity rate is 4.7 percent. Last week, it was 3.4 percent.

According to state data, more than 4.58 million people are fully vaccinated in Virginia, or 53.8 percent of the population, while 59.9 percent of the population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.