Efforts are being made in hospitals to limit the spread of RSV - but a top paediatrician wants that happening elsewhere as well

The latest ESR data shows there were 735 cases reported nationwide in the week to July 11 ... with more than two-and-a-half-thousand cases confirmed this year.

Auckland University paediatrics department boss Cameron Grant says we should be using good Covid-19 practices we know - like social distancing.

Grant, who's also a Starship Hospital doctor, says everyone in hospitals is being very careful.

He says staff are wearing PPE to try to prevent the risk of them transmitting the virus to others.