RELATIVES are still banned from visiting patients at Cheltenham General Hospital following an outbreak of norovirus.
The hospital was closed to all visitors on Wednesday after the diarrhoea and vomiting bug hit wards at the hospital.
A spokeswoman for the hospital trust said NHS chiefs were keeping a close eye on the situation and hoped to allow visitors back inside in the coming days.
But she admitted that it was impossible to give an exact date when the ban would be lifted.
The spokeswoman said: "The bug started in the community, not within the hospital. It could have been a visitor or a patient coming in from the outside."
