Extreme heat has led to a rise in deaths in France. The country’s health minister, Stephanie Rist, said that the authorities have developed emergency action plans for all hospitals in Paris and the surrounding areas. He informs about it “Armenpress”citing the BBC.
Meanwhile, an 18-month-old child in a car died in Marseille. This is not the first such case in France. On Wednesday, a three-year-old child also died in a car, and on Monday, a similar tragedy occurred with two small children in the southern city of Carpentra.
Since the heat wave began, 55 people have drowned in France, two-thirds of whom were swimming in waters where lifeguards were unable to reach them.
Between Sunday and Thursday, 327 people died from high temperatures in Spain. However, the heat wave in Spain has already started to subside.
Meanwhile, scientists studying Switzerland’s glaciers said that by Monday, all the ice accumulated there during the winter will probably melt. Switzerland is experiencing hot weather in August, but scientists have warned that the current rate of glacier melt is as high as 2022, when the highest rate on record was recorded.
