St. Paul’s visitor restriction expected to be lifted as outbreak subsides

SASKATOON – Visitors will soon be allowed back in at St. Paul’s Hospital after the Saskatoon Health Region (SHR) was forced to close its doors after another norovirus outbreak

Last Thursday, the hospital shut its doors to all visitors after an increase in the number of people afflicted with the gastrointestinal virus.

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If the hospital makes it to tonight without any new cases, it will have been four days without a new case and will reopen to all visitors on Wednesday morning.

Up to 35 patients and staff have been affected throughout the outbreak.

St. Paul’s experienced another norovirus outbreak in December.

SHR is urging all residents to protect themselves against the spread of infection by using good hand-hygiene.