The Coroner's Court will investigate the death of a six-year-old girl who died at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital on September 3.

She came down with fever, abdominal pain, headache and vomiting on September 1 and attended the hospital's accident and emergency department the next day and was discharged after treatment.

She then saw a private doctor September 3 and was taken to the hospital in the evening and later died.

She tested negative for influenza-A and B, parainfluenza, adenovirus and respiratory syncytial virus and enterovirus.

Investigations are underway to ascertain whether she died from an infective or a non-infective cause. She had spent time in Guangdong and Hong Kong in August.