Richmond and Henrico Health Districts to distribute free at-home COVID-19 testing kits Jan. 4-7

The Richmond and Henrico Health Districts will distribute 3,600 at-home COVID-19 testing kits free of charge in the coming days, including while supplies last at a number of testing and vaccination events Jan. 4-7.

Those events are scheduled as follows:

• Jan. 4, Second Baptist Church, 3300 Broad Rock Boulevard in Richmond, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. (during a separate testing event) and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. (during a vaccination event);

• Jan. 5, RHHD Henrico West Clinic, 8600 Dixon Powers Drive in Henrico, from 9 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. (during a vaccination event);

• Jan. 5, Eastern Henrico Recreation Center, 1440 Laburnum Avenue in Henrico, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (during a vaccination event);

• Jan. 5, Highland Springs Community Center, 16 South Ivy Avenue in Highland Springs, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. (during a separate testing event);

• Jan. 6, RHHD Downtown Clinic, 400 East Cary Street in Richmond, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. (during a vaccination event);

• Jan. 7, Diversity Thrift, 1407 Sherwood Avenue in Richmond, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. (during a separate testing event).

RHHD outreach staff members also will distribute kits while they are out within communities that are feeling more effects from COVID-19, and the agency will give kits to organizations that previously expressed an interest in serving as distribution sites.

For details about testing and vaccination opportunities locally, visit expressed interest in serving as a distribution site.

For more on testing and vaccination, visit https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/richmond-city/.