Governor Ralph Northam today announced that as COVID-19 hospitalizations and infection rates continue to decline and vaccinations rise in Virginia, certain outdoor sports and entertainment venues may begin to operate at increased capacity sta… Read more

Every week Mecklenburg County gets ever closer to 2,000 total COVID-19 cases. In the past two weeks, there have been 81 new cases discovered in the county. Currently, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) reflects that Mecklenburg has accru… Read more

Sentara Healthcare is committed to transparency about our role in vaccinating our communities against COVID-19. Our teams of healthcare heroes have been working diligently to support our communities in the most efficient way we can, and we ar… Read more

Governor Ralph Northam today invited Virginians to pre-register for the COVID-19 vaccine online at vaccinate.virginia.gov or by calling 877-VAX-IN-VA. The Commonwealth’s new, centralized system allows individuals to easily pre-register for th… Read more

Piedmont Access to Health Services, Inc. (PATHS) has started accepting established patients (seen within the last three years) names on a waiting list for COVID-19 vaccine clinics. Danville and Chatham locations will provide vaccine clinics S… Read more

Virginia continues to administer the COVID-19 vaccine as 84.7% of the first doses have been administered. Only 26% have received the second dose of the vaccine. Not included in the total vaccine count is the Federal Long-Term Care Facility Pr… Read more

Building on the company’s comprehensive efforts to help slow the spread of the virus, CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) will begin to administer COVID-19 vaccines to eligible populations on Thursday, February 11 at 28 CVS Pharmacy locations across Virginia. Read more

The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) has launched a COVID-19 Outbreaks in Virginia Higher Education dashboard. This dashboard includes confirmed outbreaks reported to VDH among public and private colleges and universities since August 1, 2… Read more

Virginia’s permanent COVID-19 workplace safety and health rules take effect today, after Governor Northam approved the standard adopted by the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry’s Safety and Health Codes Board last week. The standards … Read more

Sentara Healthcare is now expanding to Phase 1b vaccine administration for eligible Sentara Medical Group (SMG) patients in addition to continuing Phase 1a vaccinations for our 30,000+ employees and community healthcare workers across the state.  Read more

Virginia has reported 6,172 new positive cases of COVID-19 since Sunday. As of Monday, January 25 there are a record 478,619 total cases that have been reported since March 2020. 6,081 cases of the virus have resulted in death of the patient.… Read more

The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) and the Department of General Services Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services (DCLS) today announced that the first case of the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 has been identified in a sample from an a… Read more

COVID-19 vaccination is an important tool to help stop the pandemic. VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital has plans to expand our vaccination efforts in line with Virginia’s vaccine rollout plan but currently the vaccine is not readily available. Read more

Inmates in the Virginia Department of Corrections are being encouraged to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Those who choose to do so are to receive free email stamps and telephone credits along with a care package filled with commissary items. Read more

Virginia has administered just over a quarter of its distributed COVID-19 vaccine doses, which, going into 2021, was 110,000 fewer doses than the commonwealth expected to receive. And with the projected numbers of both doses distributed and a… Read more

Beginning Monday, January 18, the Pittsylvania-Danville and Southside health districts will begin conducting closed “point of dispensing” (POD) COVID-19 vaccination clinics specifically for “Phase 1b” priority groups. Phase 1b is the second g… Read more

As of January 11, the Virginia Department of Health is still reporting 19 outbreaks in the Southside Health District consisting of Mecklenburg, Brunswick, and Halifax counties. Mecklenburg is currently reporting 1,457 positive cases with one … Read more

Long-term care facilities in Virginia started receiving the COVID-19 vaccination last week. According to the Virginia Department of Health website, “Virginia’s Unified Command, which oversees the Commonwealth's response to COVID-19, has estab… Read more