Overview
- Santiago del Estero reported three locally acquired infections in the capital, with CEAMM confirming the cases and health teams conducting house-to-house blocking, surveillance and source reduction.
- Salta remains the epicenter, with roughly 150 cases confirmed by the provincial health minister, who noted the recent surge followed Carnival festivities.
- In the border city of Salvador Mazza, the hospital reported chikungunya-positive Aedes aegypti across all neighborhoods; laboratory-confirmed cases rose from 76 to 91 with more than 300 suspected, rapid tests began on March 10 and diagnosis by epidemiological link is being prepared.
- Catamarca confirmed its first autochthonous case—a 40-year-old woman—and deployed sanitary block measures, with symptomatic relatives under evaluation.
- Argentina’s national bulletin logged 47 new confirmed or probable cases—27 autochthonous and 20 travel-related—concentrated in Salta’s border departments, while heavy rains and heat plus dengue fatalities in Peru have driven intensified vector control and household container removal campaigns across the region.