Schools and early childhood care centres are on high alert after the Hawke's Bay District Health Board warned a nasty tummy bug continues to circulate Hawke's Bay.
Yesterday the District Health Board told education centres a diarrhoea and vomiting bug was still circulating the community and urged parents to keep sick children home until they were fully recovered.
"The population health team are investigating a number of diarrhoea and vomiting outbreaks through the Hawke's Bay community involving child care centres and rest homes, however reports are mainly of a low level of increase in gastrointestinal illness, which is also mirrored by calls to Healthline and has been continuing for the past 1-2 weeks," the release read.
The District Health Board said anyone with vomiting or diarrhoea should stay away from work and sick children should be kept home for at least 48 hours after symptoms have cleared.
"Most people's symptoms don't seem to last longer than two to three days and it is most likely being spread from person to person. It is likely to be a virus and norovirus has been confirmed in some cases."