
Chesterfield Health District offers Pfizer booster shots for 12- to 15-year-olds
The Chesterfield Health District’s Rockwood Vaccination Clinic will offer Pfizer BioNTech booster shots for 12- to 15-year-olds.

The Chesterfield Health District’s Rockwood Vaccination Clinic will offer Pfizer BioNTech booster shots for 12- to 15-year-olds.

The current inpatient COVID-19 census at Augusta Health is 39, up sharply in the past week, but still well below the late-summer Delta peak.

VDOT remains in emergency operations and is focused on clearing ice and snow from major routes in the Fredericksburg area, including Interstate 95.

More than 2,600 people are hospitalized with COVID in Virginia today, still 16.4 percent off last January’s second-surge peak, but the number would be expected to rise with the continued spread of the Omicron variant.

The Commonwealth is launching a new statewide Mortgage Relief Program to help people stay in their homes and help ease mortgage delinquencies, defaults and foreclosures due to the pandemic.

Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10), and Elaine Luria (D-VA-02) are calling on Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin to expand Virginia’s Test to Stay COVID-19 school testing protocols.

Augusta Health testing sites diagnosed 171 new COVID cases in the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. Thursday, a new record for daily positive tests, prompting the hospital to escalate its surge plan to meet growing demand for testing.

Two Virginia players who reported cold-like symptoms ended up testing positive for COVID last week. Things escalated quickly from there to the cancellation of today’s Wasabi Fenway Bowl.

Two upcoming George Mason University men’s and women’s basketball games have been postponed, the Atlantic 10 league office announced Tuesday.

The ACC announced today an addition to the league’s Medical Advisory Group Report that includes options for reducing isolation for vaccinated individuals from the current mandatory 10 days, if permitted by local and state public health officials.
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