Vomiting bug ban enters fourth week

VISITING restrictions remained in place at Cork University Hospital yesterday, 21 days after they were first introduced because of the winter vomiting bug.

A spokesman for the Health Services Executive (South) said a total ban on visitors at CUH remained in force, not because of an increase in the number of cases, but as a precautionary measure.

The ban was also introduced at St Finbarr’s Hospital on December 29, but it was lifted on January 9.