Overview
- Provincial authorities said the patients, residents of Neuquén capital and Centenario, were hospitalized with pneumonia and have been discharged.
- The cases were characterized as isolated, with no evidence of sustained community transmission in the province.
- The national count rose to five after Neuquén’s detections, following three cases reported on Dec. 22 in Santa Cruz and Buenos Aires.
- Neuquén reported strengthened epidemiological and virological monitoring in coordination with national systems and urged early consultation for symptoms.
- Specialists described subclade K as a genetic evolution of seasonal H3N2 with possible higher transmissibility, not greater clinical severity, and advised standard hygiene and ventilation.