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Analysis: Northern Virginia experiencing slight spike in COVID-19

By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] The seven-day, moving-average positivity rate for COVID-19 has become a relied-on indicator nationwide for how states, regions and cities are...

COVID-19 positivity rate plunges across city zip codes

By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] Alexandria’s cumulative COVID-19 positivity rate has declined in each of the five zip codes that lie fully within city limits...

Red Cross testing blood donations for COVID-19 antibodies

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Residents looking to figure out if they have antibodies to COVID-19 are in luck: The American Red Cross is now...

Alexandria enters phase two of reopening

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] Northern Virginia will enter phase two of reopening tomorrow, Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) announced at a press conference on Tuesday. The...

Testing those most impacted by COVID-19

By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] Two groups of people in Alexandria have been hit hardest by COVID-19: older residents and the city’s Hispanic/Latino population. Because the...

Free community testing available on Memorial Day

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] The Alexandria Health Department and City of Alexandria are supporting free COVID-19 testing at two sites on Memorial Day, May...

COVID-19 in Alexandria by the numbers

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] Note: The data reported in this story and accompanying charts are from May 5. The number of cases, hospitalizations and...

Council discusses future COVID-19 testing

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] Dr. Stephen Haering, director of the Alexandria Health Department, discussed the future of COVID-19 testing in Alexandria at a city...

Our View: That bedeviling COVID-19 data

April 2020 will be remembered as the month America was almost fully shut in and shut down. States began closing in mid-March: School systems, colleges...

Drive-through COVID-19 testing comes to Old Town

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Inova Alexandria Hospital’s drive-through testing site for COVID-19 in Old Town is up and running. In Alexandria, private doctors, Inova and...