Norovirus spreads to second ward

Visiting restrictions have been extended at a Norfolk hospital after an outbreak of a winter vomiting bug spread to a second ward.

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital has suspended most visits to Docking and Gunthorpe wards after a series of patients caught the Norovirus bug.

The virus causes nausea and diarrhoea and is easily spread.

The hospital has asked friends and relatives of patients in both wards to stay away unless visits are essential.

Docking ward was the first to be made subject to visiting restrictions after a number of cases of the bug were reported. The first restrictions were put in place on 11 November.

Dr Judith Richards, the hospital's director of infection prevention and control, said: "We want to protect our patients by restricting the chances of people spreading this infection.

"For this reason, regrettably, we are asking that people do not visit patients in the affected wards, unless absolutely necessary."

The hospital said the visiting restrictions would be reviewed on Wednesday.