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

• Thursday, Jan. 5, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Southside Women, Infants and Children Office, 1519 Williamsburg Road.; 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. - Fulton Neighborhood Resource Center, 1519 Williamsburg Road.

Call the Richmond and Henrico COVID-19 Hotline at (804) 205-3501 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for more information on testing sites, or go online at vax.rchd.com.

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 or booster shot?

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

• Tuesday, Jan. 10, 9 to 11 a.m. - Cary Street, 400 E. Cary St., JYNNEOS shots, walk-ups welcome but appointments encouraged.

• Wednesday, Jan. 11, 3 to 6 p.m. - Second Baptist Church, 3300 Broad Rock Blvd., Primary Moderna shots for ages 6 months to 5 years old and ages 12 and older, bivalent booster for ages 6 and older, Primary Pfizer shots for ages 6 months and older and bivalent boosters for ages 5 and older, Novavax primary shots for ages 12 and older and boosters for ages 18 and older and Flu shots, walk-ups welcome but appointments encouraged.

People can schedule an appointment online at vase.vdh.virginia.gov, vaccinate.virginia.gov or vax.rchd.com, or by calling (804) 205-3501 or (877) VAX-IN-VA (1-877-829-4682).

VaccineFinder.org and vaccines.gov also allow people to find nearby pharmacies and clinics that offer the COVID-19 vaccine and booster.

Those who are getting a booster shot should bring their vaccine card to confirm the date and type of vaccine received.

RHHD also offers at-home vaccinations by calling (804) 205-3501 to schedule appointments.

New COVID-19 boosters, updated to better protect against the latest variants of the virus, are now available. The new Pfizer booster is approved for those aged 12 and up, while the new Moderna booster is for those aged 18 and older.

As with previous COVID-19 boosters, the new doses can only be received after an initial two vaccine shots, and those who qualify are instructed to wait at least two months after their second COVID-19 vaccine.

The Richmond and Henrico Health Districts are now offering bivalent Pfizer and Moderna boosters to children between the ages of 5 to 11 in clinics in the near future. Children in this age range will be eligible after at least two months since their last vaccine dose.

New COVID-19 cases in Virginia dropped by roughly 21 percent during the last week, according to data from the Virginia Department of Health, while data from the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association showed hospitalizations statewide increased by 24 percent since last Wednesday.

Richmond and the counties of Chesterfield and Hanover are still at medium levels of community COVID-19, while Henrico County has reached high levels as of last week. Thirty-three localities in Virginia are ranked at high community COVID levels, while 49 were ranked at medium as of last week.

A total of 1,919 new cases of COVID-19 were reported statewide Tuesday for the 24-hour period, contributing to an overall state total of 2,213,867 cases in Virginia since the pandemic’s outbreak. As of Wednesday, there have been 457,422 hospitalizations and 22,687 deaths were reported statewide on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, state health officials reported that over 18.1 million COVID-19 doses had been administered, with 73.6 percent of the state’s population fully vaccinated at the time. State data also showed that over 5.1 million people in Virginia have received booster shots or third doses of the vaccine.

Among ages 5 to 11 in Virginia, 341,925 have received their first shots as of Tuesday, accounting for 47.2 percent of the age group in the state, while 300,768 children, or 41.5 percent, are fully vaccinated. In this age group, 54,453 children have received a monovalent booster, making up 7.5 percent, while 35,024 have gotten a bivalent booster shot, accounting for 12 percent of this group.

As of Tuesday, 62,541 children from the ages of zero to four have received their first doses, making up 13.8 percent of the population in Virginia, while 48,488 are fully vaccinated, or 10.7 percent of the population. On Wednesday, fewer than 1,630,680 cases, 7,640 hospitalizations and 105 deaths were recorded among children in the state.

State data also shows that African-Americans comprised 18.6 percent of cases statewide and 18 percent of deaths for which ethnic and racial data is available, while Latinos made up 9.3 percent of cases and 3.6 percent of deaths.

As of Monday, Richmond reported a total of 60,624 cases, 1,262 hospitalizations and 547 deaths; Henrico County, 86,564 cases, 1,691 hospitalizations and 1,051 deaths; Chesterfield County, 96,481 cases, 1,740 hospitalizations and 861 deaths; and Hanover County, 28,025 cases, 865 hospitalizations and 336 deaths.