Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

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

• Thursday, March 11, 9 to 11 a.m., Regency Square rear parking deck, 1420 N. Parham Road, in Western Henrico. Drive-thru testing.

• Thursday, March 18, 1 to 3 p.m., Eastern Henrico Health Department, 1400 N. Laburnum Ave. in Eastern Henrico. Drive-thru testing.

Appointments are encouraged 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.

The Virginia Department of Health also has a list of COVID-19 testing locations around the state at www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/covid-19-testing-sites/.

Want a COVID-19 vaccine?

Contact the statewide COVID-19 Vaccination Pre-Registration System at vaccinate.virginia.gov or by calling 877-VAX-IN-VA.

The call center is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week to help people pre-register by phone or to answer questions about the vaccine. The call center has English- and Spanish-speaking agents and a call-back service to help people in more than 100 other languages.

Additionally, TTY service is available to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

About 18.5 percent of Virginia’s residents have been inoculated with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, state health officials reported on Wednesday. That is more than 2.4 million doses of the vaccine that have been administered in the state, with 882,082 people fully vaccinated.

In Richmond and Henrico, officials have expanded vaccine eligibility to include restaurant workers, other front line essential workers and people age 16 to 64 with underlying medical conditions.

In Chesterfield County, eligibility also has expanded to grocery store workers, those in manufacturing and food and agriculture and adults age 65 and older.

Efforts also are underway to expand vaccine distribution through pharmacies, including stores such as Walmart that have pharmacies. In Richmond, Walmart will be administering the vaccine through appointment-only clinics, including one on Thursday, March 11, at St. Paul’s Baptist Church on Creighton Road in Henrico County.

The Virginia Department of Health also reported last week the first case of the COVID- 19 variant found in South Africa. The case was reported to be in Central Virginia.

State officials reported 589,375 cases of COVID-19 statewide on Wednesday, along with 24,925 hospitalizations and 9,849 deaths. Virginia’s seven-day positivity rate continues to drop, and is now at 5.7 percent statewide. Last week, it was 6.6 percent.

According to state data, African-Americans comprised 21.9 percent of cases statewide and 24.1 percent of deaths for which ethnic and racial data is available, while Latinos made up 16.9 percent of cases and 6.6 percent of deaths.

As of Wednesday, Richmond reported a total of 15,110 positive cases, 708 hospitalizations and 220 deaths; Henrico County, 21,884 cases, 906 hospitalizations and 549 deaths; Chesterfield County, 24,137 cases, 817 hospitalizations and 366 deaths; and Hanover County, 6,854 cases, 255 hospitalizations and 144 deaths.