The news comes as a particularly severe strain of influenza – dubbed “super flu” – spreads across the UK.

Professor Meghana Pandit, NHS national medical director, has called the wave "unprecedented" and said it has left the NHS facing a "worst case scenario".

Locally, there were an average of 13 flu patients at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (N&N) each day last week - up from an average of seven per day the........

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