Norovirus detected in diners at Tokyo hotel restaurant

Minggu, 06 Januari 2013 15:01

(TOKYO-Kyodo) Noroviruses were detected in diners at a Prince Hotel Tokyo restaurant and in people who ate lunch boxes prepared by an arm of renowned sukiyaki restaurant chain operator Ningyocho Imahan Co., the Tokyo metropolitan government said Friday.

A total of 76 people who dined at the hotel's Buffet Restaurant Porto on Dec. 12 and 13 developed the symptoms of norovirus food poisoning such as diarrhea and vomiting.

In addition, 35 people developed norovirus symptoms after eating lunch boxes delivered to seven locations in Tokyo on Dec. 18 by Ningyocho Imahan Foods Plant, the metropolitan government said.

Local authorities ordered the hotel restaurant and the food factory to suspend operations for three days from Friday.