“In the Île-de-France region (between June 22 and 28), a very high excess mortality rate was observed in the context of a heat wave,” with a variation of “+122%, or +1,565 deaths between the expected and observed number of deaths ,” the report states. These figures are the most precise to date on the health impact of the June heat wave in the Paris region, one of the hardest hit in terms of mortality by this event, which was even more intense than the unprecedented heat wave of 2003.
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