Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

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

• Thursday, March 25, 10 a.m. to noon, Diversity Richmond, 1407 Sherwood Ave. in North Side. 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?

Seniors age 65 and older who live in Richmond or Henrico County no longer have to wait for an email or phone call to schedule a COVID- 19 vaccination appointment. Now seniors can call the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts’ COVID-19 hotline — (804) 205-3501 – from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to schedule a vaccine appointment directly.

Others who want a vaccine should contact the statewide COVID-19 Vaccination Pre-Registration System at vaccinate.virginia.gov or by calling 877-VAX-IN-VA, or (877) 829-4682.

The statewide 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.

Some Virginia localities are moving into Phase 1C for vaccinations, state health officials announced Tuesday. This next priority group for the vaccine includes faculty and staff at higher education facilities; water, wastewater and waste removal workers; and employees at food service, transportation and logistics and finance industries, among others.

Moving to the new phase depends on local health officials and efforts localities have made to reach those already eligible for the vaccine, officials said. All health districts around the state are expected to move to Phase 1C by mid-April and to Phase 2, with anyone age 16 or older in Virginia to become eligible for the vaccine, by May 1.

The Crater Health District also opened a mass vaccination center at Virginia State University’s Multi-Purpose Center to serve residents from the Petersburg, Hopewell, Colonial Heights and Chesterfield areas and beyond. Vaccinations will be given to people who pre-registered on the state’s site and have appointments.

About 21.6 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 2.8 million doses of the vaccine that have been administered in the state, with just more than 1 million people fully vaccinated.

State officials reported 598,468 cases of COVID-19 statewide on Wednesday, along with 25,517 hospitalizations and 10,154 deaths. Virginia’s seven-day positivity rate continues to drop, and is now at 5.4 percent statewide. Last week, it was 5.7 percent.

According to state data, African-Americans comprised 21.9 percent of cases statewide and 24.3 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.