France Records 300 Excess Deaths During Unseasonal May Heatwave
Public Health France said deaths rose above 1,400 on Thursday and Friday as funeral directors reported overwhelmed mortuaries.
- Public Health France reported around 1,000 excess deaths last week at the height of a record-breaking heatwave as temperatures shifted eastward across Europe.
- World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus blamed climate change for the "once-in-a-generation" heatwave, noting Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average.
- One Parisian funeral director, Zouhaeir Hertelli, said he is "dealing with an enormous spike of deaths" and has no room left, while more than 600 passengers were evacuated from an overheated train in Brandenburg.
- Red warnings for extreme heat persist across Poland, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia, and Slovakia, as French power prices rose 25% to €79.94 per megawatt-hour and German prices gained 6.9% on Monday.
- Weather models indicate high pressure could return in early July, potentially bringing another round of extreme heat to France, Spain, and Germany, as western Europe remains forecast to see unseasonably warm temperatures for weeks.
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France reports 1,000 excess deaths as Europe's worst heatwave buckles power, rail, and care
France says the late-June European heat wave has already been linked to 1,000 excess deaths, highlighting the severity of a record-setting event affecting multiple countries. Even where storms have moved in, the emergency is still putting pressure on electricity networks, transportation, hospitals, and care systems serving older adults. What happened? According to Reuters, French health officials said older adults account for most of the known …
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estrepublicain.frOn Tuesday, the National Public Health Agency took stock of the two canicular episodes of this early summer. It estimates the number of "excess" deaths to be 300 during the heatwave in May and 1,000 for the heatwave in June. But these figures are very partial and to be handled with caution.
The majority of these excess deaths observed in five days during this unprecedented heat episode were over 75 years old, according to Public Health France. It is at this stage of death any cause, those attributable to heat will be known in a few months.
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