Suspected and laboratory-confirmed reported norovirus outbreaks in hospitals: outbreaks occurring in weeks 9 to 13, 2016
Updated 13 January 2017
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The hospital norovirus outbreak reporting scheme (HNORS) recorded 101 outbreaks occurring between weeks 9 and 13, 2016, 99 of which led to ward/bay closures or restriction to admissions. Eighty-four outbreaks (98%) were recorded as laboratory confirmed due to norovirus. Between week 1 (January 2016) and week 13 (week beginning 28 March 2016) 170 outbreaks were reported. Ninety-seven per cent (164) of reported outbreaks resulted in ward/bay closures or restrictions to admissions and 80% (136) were laboratory confirmed as due to norovirus.
Suspected and laboratory-confirmed reported norovirus outbreaks in hospitals, with regional breakdown: outbreaks occurring in weeks 9 to 13 of 2016
| Region/PHE Centre | Outbreaks between weeks 9 to 13/2016 | Total outbreaks weeks 1 to 13/2016 | ||||
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| Ģż | Outbreaks | Ward/bay closure* | Lab-confirmed | Outbreaks | Ward/bay closure* | Lab-confirmed |
| Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire | 8 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 8 |
| Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Cheshire and Merseyside | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 |
| Cumbria and Lancashire | 6 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 5 |
| Devon, Cornwall and Somerset | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| Greater Manchester | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Dorset | 8 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 17 | 14 |
| Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 7 | 7 | 6 |
| London | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 1 | 1 | 바카라 사이트 |
| Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 | 바카라 사이트 |
| North east | 26 | 25 | 23 | 41 | 38 | 33 |
| Sussex, Surrey and Kent | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| Thames Valley | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 8 |
| West Midlands | 12 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 16 | 14 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 28 | 28 | 24 | 37 | 36 | 33 |
| Total | 101 | 99 | 84 | 170 | 164 | 136 |
* Note: not all outbreaks result in whole wards closures, some closures are restricted to bays only.
In the current season to date 바카라 사이트 (from week 27, 2015, to week 13, 2016), there were 2356 laboratory reports of norovirus. This is 45% lower than the average number of laboratory reports for the same period in the seasons between 2009/2010 and 2013/2014 (4255).
바카라 사이트 The norovirus season runs from July to June (week 27 in year 1 to week 26 in year 2) in order to capture the winter peak in one season.
Note:the number of laboratory reports in the most recent weeks will increase as further reports are received. On 1 December 2014 a new laboratory reporting system was commissioned; as a result, direct comparisons between earlier reports (based on LabBase2) and the new system (SGSS) may not be valid.