Heatwave: Over 10,000 people died in Europe in June – Report
The data, pooled from national mortality statistics in 27 European countries, included excess deaths from all causes, not just heat-related ones, during the week of 22 to 28 June, when the heat-wave peaked in France, Spain, Britain and other countries.
EuroMOMO does not publish excess deaths per individual country, but it noted that France and Belgium were the only two countries in Europe to log “very high excess” mortality in the last week of June.“It is difficult to explain this high excess mortality by anything but the extreme heat,” Vestergaard added.
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