Coronavirus in Virginia

The Spotsylvania County School Board voted to ease masking rules Monday night, making masks optional on school buses and school grounds.

The Spotsylvania County School Board voted to ease masking rules Monday night, and mask guidance could be changing in Montgomery County schools soon. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

Officials said those resources are being diverted to a mobile clinic that will move to sites based on community needs.

The mayor of Virginia’s capital city says he’s tested positive for COVID-19 again

With COVID-19 cases spiking in Virginia, more hospitals have moved into what’s called “crisis standards of care,” which allows them to extend resources and reduce the impact of supply or physician shortages. In Fredericksburg, Mary Washington Hospital transformed its parking garage into a field hospital. News4’s Cory Smith got an inside look before the first patients arrived.

The COVID-19 uptick continues in Virginia: On Thursday, nearly 6,500 new cases of the virus were reported. That’s one of Virginia’s largest one-day jumps in cases since the pandemic began. Virginia has only reported more than 6,000 cases in a day a few times, and it hasn’t happened since January 2021, according to Virginia Department of Health data. A total…

Virginia added almost 6,000 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, a number that rivals the worst single day totals of the entire pandemic. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports.

An elementary school in Northern Virginia is returning to all-virtual learning this week after a COVID-19 outbreak. All students at Bennett Elementary School in Manassas will go back to virtual learning from Tuesday until the end of the week. The school has 36 confirmed cases of COVID-19, three probable cases and more than 200 close contacts who have been notified…

A child under the age of 10 who died in eastern Virginia from COVID-19 is the second fatal juvenile case this week

A middle school in Fredericksburg, Virginia, will temporarily close and go back to virtual learning as it grapples with multiple COVID-19 outbreaks, officials said. Walker-Grant Middle School will go back to virtual learning for more than a week, until Tuesday, Sept. 7, officials said in a note to the school community Thursday. The COVID-19 outbreak is having a high impact…

A Virginia university is offering money to students, faculty and staff who can show proof of a vaccination against COVID-19.

What do we know about the origins of the COVID-19 virus? And how long until we’re out of this? NBC News senior medical correspondent Dr. John Torres breaks it down for us.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe is calling on all Virginia employers to require the COVID-19 vaccine for their workers

Now that the FDA has given the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine its stamp of full approval, doctors hope that some vaccine skeptics will finally be convinced to get the shot. As NBC News medical contributor Dr. Kavita Patel explains, the approval is also likely to lead to more vaccine mandates by employers.

A Virginia school system was forced to cancel all classes because of staffing shortages related to the coronavirus pandemic.

However, only 49 of them were enrolled in fall courses, so “a good number” of the remaining students may not have been planning to return to school this fall at all, a UVA spokesperson said.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said about 122,000 state employees will be required to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or weekly negative test results starting next month.

Arlington Public Schools will require all students and staff to wear masks when they return to the classroom this fall — regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status. The announcement from the school system follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s updated guidance that everyone wear masks inside schools. Masks will be required while inside all public school buildings and on…

Northam’s recommendation came the same afternoon that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser reinstated the District’s indoor mask mandate for public settings.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is calling for $353 million from the latest federal coronavirus relief bill to go toward boosting economic recovery efforts for small businesses and industries that took a hit during the pandemic