{"id":336297,"date":"2025-12-10T07:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/336297\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:13:19","slug":"norovirus-outbreak-reported-at-richmond-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/336297\/","title":{"rendered":"Norovirus outbreak reported at Richmond Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norovirus outbreak reported<\/p>\n

Valerie Leung \/ Richmond News – Dec 5, 2025 \/ 8:41 pm | Story: 588004<\/p>\n

\"Norovirus<\/p>\n

Photo: Richmond News file photo.<\/p>\n

Norovirus outbreak reported at Richmond Hospital.<\/p>\n

An outbreak of norovirus has been reported at Richmond Hospital.<\/p>\n

An online bulletin on Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)’s website <\/a>has listed norovirus reported on the sixth floor of the\u00a0hospital’s north tower and the third floor of its south wing.<\/p>\n

Restrictions have been put in place since Saturday, Nov. 29, when a VCH medical health official received reports of “significant numbers of both symptomatic patients and staff,” according to VCH in an email response to the Richmond News.<\/p>\n

Norovirus is a virus that can cause acute gastroenteritis, an infection of the digestive tract. Symptoms can include upset stomach, vomiting and\/or diarrhea.<\/p>\n

People infected with norovirus usually get better on their own or in a few days without treatment, according to the health authority.<\/p>\n

Respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses circulate in the fall and winter seasons with a “corresponding amount of transmission and illness in health care facilities,” said VCH.<\/p>\n

They added an exact number of cases at Richmond Hospital\u00a0cannot be provided, “as it changes daily, and may already be out of date at the time of reporting.”<\/p>\n

“Through collaboration with our local infection, prevention and control practitioners, we implement baseline infection prevention and control measures, continue to do active surveillance for infectious diseases, and have a protocol in place for timely testing and isolation of those with symptoms,” said VCH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norovirus outbreak reported Valerie Leung \/ Richmond News – Dec 5, 2025 \/ 8:41 pm | Story: 588004…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-336297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}