Updates for Friday, 3 February 2017
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Read MoreInspectors say care standards have risen at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
Read MoreUp to 170 extra beds will be opened in Norwich to treat the East of England's sickest patients.
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Nic Rigby
BBC News
The retirement of a long-serving director at one of the region's hospitals lasted little more than 24 hours, after she returned to work to support the team through the coronavirus pandemic.
Julia Hunt, director of nursing at the James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, had been due to step down after 32 years' service at the hospital.
Image source, James Paget HospitalBut after the start of the coronavirus pandemic she decided to return.
She has taken on the role of director of infection control while also providing support for her successor Paul Morris.
She told BBC Radio Norfolk: "I was very much looking forward to retirement but I just could not walk away from all of my colleagues and friends through this pandemic, hence the 24-hour retirement.
"Infection control always played a key part of my work as director of nursing but with the enormity of this pandemic this enables me to have much more of a focus on it."
Nurses and doctors clapped and cheered as the patient was taken through the hospital ward.
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Image source, Getty Images"Love letters" to the NHS written by stars such as Sir Paul McCartney, Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry have been collected in a book.
Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You will raise funds for NHS Charities Together and The Lullaby Trust, and has been curated by This Is Going To Hurt author Adam Kay, external.
"It is our single greatest achievement as a nation, always there for us and never more so than now," said Kay, a former doctor.
High-profile contributors include Ricky Gervais, Graham Norton, Sir Michael Palin and Louis Theroux.
Kay said he had been "blown away" by the number of people who had been willing to share their stories for the book, which will be released on 9 July.
An emotional video has been released by the James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk.
It shows the reaction of staff when a patient recovers from Covid-19 and is able to leave.
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Open Youth Trust ran projects for under-25s and hosted children's activities and live music.
Read MoreA university for the arts has turned its hand to making face shields and wash sacks for the NHS.
Norwich University of the Arts, external (NUA), said it created 400 shields in a day, and hopes to increase the number to 1,000.
Pro Vice-Chancellor Neil Powell said: "We are delighted that NUA's 3D precision print and laser technologies, which are routinely used by students in the production of their creative work, can be retasked to help protect front line NHS staff."
Image source, NUAChloe Fuller, fashion technician, has so far made 50 wash sacks for medical scrubs, which staff to safely send their scrubs for high temperature cleaning at the end of each shift.
She wanted to help as her sister, Fay, is a nurse.
Image source, NUAPolice in Norfolk are warning about people going door to door, offering to do jobs like gardening and building work.
The force says it has received reports of a van collecting rubble from people's homes in Swaffham.
No evidence of illegal trade was found, but it said door to door selling is not "essential travel" and it should not be happening.
Image source, Norfolk Police
Matt Precey
BBC Look East
The latest figures were released by the government , externalshowed that there was an increase of 128 deaths in the East, bringing the total to 1,424.
Here is the breakdown from each NHS Trust in the area.
It brings the total number of COVID-19 associated UK deaths in hospitals to 12,868.
Masterpieces of convenience are being created during the lockdown as artists turn to loo roll tubes.
Read MoreThe University of East Anglia (UEA) has led a project involving a team of local businesses and individuals by creating face shields for the county’s health trusts.
The university has had help from 20 organisations who have come together to supply them with the materials and labour to make the parts needed to create the 1,400 face shields to date.
They have been delivered to Norfolk’s three major hospitals: Norwich and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), James Paget Hospital (JPH) in Great Yarmouth and Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King’s Lynn.
The university has implemented a strict quality control precedure to ensure the visors meet NHS guidelines.
Dr Mahmoud Abdelhamid, lecturer in Chemical Biology at UEA,who organied the face shields project, said: “We’re trying to do everything we can to assist our colleagues in the NHS during this difficult time and, with the continued help of local organisations, we’re hoping to produce plenty more."
Image source, UEAThe university has made 1,400 face shields already
RAF World War Two Lancaster pilot Sydney "Stevie" Stevens has died at the age of 98.
Mr Stevens, of Saxlingham Nethergate, Norfolk, flew 28 missions and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
He went on to become a social media star after an appeal on BBC Look East in 2019.
Matt Precey
BBC Look East
In the latest figures released yesterday evening from Public Health England, external, it showed that there had been an increase of 89 deaths.
Here is the breakdown from each NHS Trust in the East.
It brings the total numbers of deaths to 1,190 in this region.
The factory normally makes parts for luxury cars but has switched production to face shields.
Read MoreSydney "Stevie" Stevens, of Saxlingham in Norfolk, took part in 28 missions during the war.
Read MoreThe site north-east of Norwich will help the cope with "the predicted peak in coronavirus".
Read MoreSeaside spots around the east coast that would normally be teeming with visitors were eerily quiet as people observed the coronavirus lockdown over the Easter weekend.
Apart from a few residents taking their permitted exercise and giving their dogs a stretch on the sand, popular beaches in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex were almost empty, these aerial pictures show.
Coronavirus: Aerial shots show east coast seafronts deserted
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council went as far as publicising a "Don't Visit Southend" campaign before the weekend, urging tourists to stay away to protect the local population.
It thanked people on Twitter for staying at home and said nearly £10m in grants had been paid out to 944 small businesses to try and keep them afloat during the pandemic.
Tourists largely stayed away from East of England seaside spots as people heeded the coronavirus lockdown.
Read MoreTourists largely stayed away from East of England seaside spots as people heeded the coronavirus lockdown.
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