A hospital in Geogia blamed a computer virus for system interruptions and outages over three days last week:

Gwinnett Medical Center on Friday confirmed it has instructed ambulances to take patients to other area hospitals when possible after discovering a system-wide computer virus that slowed patient registration and other operations at its campuses in Lawrenceville and Duluth. Staff members discovered the virus Wednesday afternoon and have been working since then with outside I.T. experts to fix the problem, spokeswoman Beth Okun said. In the meantime, the health system has been forced to switch back to paperwork.

Emergency and trauma patients had to be diverted away from Wednesday until Friday afternoon.