ANOTHER ward at York District Hospital has been closed to new admissions because of the spread of an airborne virus.
Yesterday, 14 members of staff were still off sick with the Norwalk virus and ward 32, where six patients are ill, is still closed to new admissions. Two more patients on the ward are also showing signs of the illness.
Ward 35, where two patients and one staff member were showing symptoms of the virus, which causes sickness and diarrhoea, has also been closed to new admissions.
Ward 32 was closed on Friday.
Laboratory tests are being carried out to establish the exact nature of the virus.
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