Despite an executive order from Gov. Glenn Youngkin Saturday that will terminate the statewide health order requiring masks in K-12 schools, Henrico Schools officials said Sunday night that their masking rules will remain in effect. The executive order clashes with a state law that requires schools to follow guidelines from
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Worried about increasingly burdened hospital emergency departments throughout Virginia, state health and hospital leaders are taking the unusual step of urging people not to check themselves into a hospital unless absolutely necessary. In a joint statement Thursday, officials from the Virginia Department of Health and the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare
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have committed to the program. The testing program, called Virginia School Screening Testing for Assurance should go live in October, according to State Health Commissioner M. Norman Oliver. The program is joint effort between the CDC, Virginia Department of Health and the Virginia Department of Education. Testing will be free
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The state is recommending — but not requiring — all Virginia schools to enforce mask mandates for unvaccinated students and staff in the fall. The state’s public health order, which requires everyone five and older to wear face masks inside school buildings, expires on Sunday and will not be extended, according
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Virginia officials expect to receive 480,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna by the end of the month, and they’ll be given to healthcare workers and long-term care facilities in the state, Virginia Health Department officials announced last Friday afternoon. State officials learned details about the
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