France Heat Wave Deaths
France said its June heat wave caused more than 5,700 excess deaths.
Summary
France recorded 5,764 more deaths than expected from June 17 to July 2 during a heat wave, Public Health France said, raising the national toll estimate. The agency counted 21,674 deaths from all causes in affected regions, compared with 15,910 expected, an excess mortality rate of 36%. More than half of the excess deaths occurred from June 25 to June 27, when temperatures broke records across the country. The figure made the episode France’s deadliest heat-wave mortality event in more than two decades.
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