The death of an elderly man at a Liverpool city region hotel was NOT connected to an outbreak of the norovirus "winter vomiting disease", health officials have declared.
The Scarisbrick Hotel in Southport has been closed-down after more than fifty guests were hit by an outbreak of winter vomiting disease.
A spokesman for the Health Protection Agency in the North West said: "The results of the post mortem show that the death was not related in any way to the outbreak of norovirus illness at the hotel.
"Our sympathies go to the family of the gentleman concerned. It was an unrelated event and a sad co-incidence."
A team of cleaners has been tasked with disinfecting every surface that could hold traces of norovirus at the 88-bedroomed hotel.
The imposing red-brick, crenelated building, dates back to the Victorian heyday of the resort and stands in a central position on its famous tree-lined Lord Street.
Norovirus - also known as winter vomiting disease - can be transmitted from person to person or by contact with contaminated surfaces, food or water.
Scarisbick Hotel manager Mr Andrew Gorman said: "We have had a virus that has given people sickness and diarrhoea caused by someone on a coach party bringing it into our hotel.
"We have worked with environmental health officers from the moment we heard of this problem."
A handful of guest who suffered severe symptoms of a norovirus infection received treatment at Southport and Formby District General Hospital.
The hotel is expected to re-open within a matter of days.
The Health Protection Agency said anyone suffering severe symptoms of the illness should seek urgent medical help.
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