{"id":410936,"date":"2026-02-06T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410936\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:39:13","slug":"queen-alexandra-hospital-restricts-visitors-due-to-norovirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410936\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Alexandra Hospital restricts visitors due to norovirus cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The affected wards are E3, C2, G1 and G3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospital said restrictions would not apply to paediatric, maternity or end-of-life patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norovirus is the most common cause of infectious diarrhoea and vomiting in England and Wales, according to the NHS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It can be transmitted by contact with contaminated surfaces and objects, and people usually recover fully within two to three days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospital said: &#8220;Please do not visit someone in the hospital if you are experiencing symptoms of norovirus &#8211; wait until you have been symptom free for at least 48 hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The affected wards are E3, C2, G1 and G3. The hospital said restrictions would not apply to paediatric,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-410936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}