Agoura, do your part during a national blood shortage at an upcoming Red Cross drive.

AGOURA HILLS, CA — The American Red Cross will host a blood drive at Agoura Hills City Hall on Oct. 26 amid a national blood shortage.

This is the third week of the Red Cross's emergency blood shortage, according to The Ironton Tribune. Blood supplies have fallen to the lowest post-summer level the country has seen in six years.

As such, the Red Cross has been desperately reaching out to Americans for blood donations.

The amount of blood donations has gone down sharply in recent months due to the spread of the delta variant of COVID-19, school starting back up and people going back to their busy lives, said Nina Minton, account manager for the Red Cross.

Additionally, COVID-19 restrictions have made blood drives at schools nearly impossible. This is a major problem, Minton said, given schools are generally the Red Cross's biggest source of post-summer blood donations.

Office spaces have also proven difficult for blood drives given so many people are still working from home, Minton said.

Sign up to give a blood donation on the Red Cross website.