France endured a rise of nearly 30 percent in the number of deaths recorded during the week starting June 22, as a record-breaking heatwave linked to climate change gripped much of Europe, health authorities said Friday. The number of deaths increased by around 62 percent in the Paris region over the same period, Public Health France said. Scientists
Deaths surged by nearly a third in France during the hottest week of a record heat wave last month, the country's public health authority said Friday, reporting at least 2,000 more deaths than in the previous week when temperatures were already climbing and filling emergency wards with heat victims. The new and still incomplete figures from Public
France endured a rise of nearly 30 percent in the number of deaths recorded during the week starting June 22, the peak of a record-breaking heatwave that battered the country, the public health authority said Friday. The number of deaths increased by 62 percent in the Paris region over the same period, Public Health France said in a new report. A similar