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Traditional ChineseSimplified ChineseText onlyPDARSS
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April 28, 2006
Health
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3 more test positive for norovirus

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Hospital Authority

Three more patients and one staff member of an infirmary ward in the Kowloon Hospital Rehabilitation Building have come down with gastroenteritis symptoms, bringing the total infected to 16.

 

Three more patients have tested positive for norovirus, bringing the total testing positive to seven.

 

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 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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