Morling Lodge in Red Hill is in quarantine after recording 40 cases of the norovirus strain of gastroenteritis among its elderly residents since August 24. Baptist Community Services owns the high-care centre, which has 105 patients.

Southern region general manager Paul English said the lodge had complied with all laws.

''As a precaution as part of our infection-control process, particularly with this strain of virus ... we have gone into lockdown. We sent a letter out to all the residents' families indicating that we were going to restrict access as much as we could,'' he said.

Three residents now had gastroenteritis but no one had died because of the virus, he said.

Full report in today's Canberra Times