Liuzhou has suffered its first contagious hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) fatality. According to the official Xinhua News Agency,
" In Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southwest China, a boy aged one and a half years old from the rural area of Liuzhou City died on Tuesday, the local health administration announced.
The child began to cough and caught a fever on Saturday. His parents did not send him to hospital until three days later when he went into a coma."
According to the same report, the death toll in China now stands at 32, with 24,934 children infected.