Three more patients and two staff members of an infirmary ward in the Kowloon Hospital Rehabilitation Building have came down with gastroenteritis symptoms, bringing the total infected to 12. Four have tested positive for Norovirus.
Laboratory results for the remaining patients are pending. The patients are being treated in isolation and their condition is stable. The staff members are on sick leave.
Infection control measures have already been enhanced. There will be no admission to and discharge from the ward for now. Visiting of the isolated cubicle in the ward is also suspended. All other patients in the ward are under close surveillance.
Hospital Authority and the Centre for Health Protection are following up the case.
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