Argentine authorities announced the death of two people this week in the country’s northwest due to acute pneumonia of “unknown origin” that has baffled doctors.

“A total of six people have contracted the disease, they are patients, and five medical workers are working in the same intensive care unit in the provincial hospital,” Agence France Presse quoted the report saying that “six people in total have contracted the disease, and they are a patient and five healthcare workers working in the same intensive care unit at a hospital in the province.” hospitalized for treatment, and the sixth patient adheres to home quarantine, as his condition does not require hospitalization.

Regional government health minister Luis Medina Ruiz told reporters: “These patients report that they have an acute respiratory illness with bilateral pneumonia and their symptoms are very similar to those of Covid, but the hypothesis of their infection with coronavirus has been ruled out”, noting that “six infected passed a large number of tests, all of which were negative,” noting that “among those tests are Covid, the common cold, the flu of both types A+ and B+, hantavirus (an infection transmitted by rodents) and 25 other germs.”