{"id":9172,"date":"2019-09-09T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9172"},"modified":"2019-09-09T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T09:25:15","slug":"summer-heat-killed-nearly-1500-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9172","title":{"rendered":"Summer heat killed nearly 1,500 in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Record heatwaves in June and July caused the deaths of 1,435 people in France this year, according to the country&#8217;s health minister.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on French radio, Agn\u00e8s Buzyn said half of those who died were aged over 75.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u00a0 thanked to preventative measures, because\u00a0 of which the rate was 10 times lower than the same period in 2003 when a deadly heatwave hit Europe.<\/p>\n<p>France recorded its highest-ever temperature of 46C (114.8F) in June.\u00a0 The capital, Paris, also saw a record high temperature of 42.6C (108.7F) in July.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry of Health, 567 people died during France&#8217;s first heatwave this year, from 24 June to 7 July. A further 868 died during the second from 21 to 27 July.<\/p>\n<p>During the summer, red alerts &#8211; the most severe warning category &#8211; were issued in several areas of France.\u00a0 During hot periods, many schools and public events were closed to minimise public exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record heatwaves in June and July caused the deaths of 1,435 people in France this year, according to the country&#8217;s health minister. Speaking on French radio, Agn\u00e8s Buzyn said half of those who died were aged over 75. But he\u00a0 thanked to preventative measures, because\u00a0 of which the rate was 10 times lower than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,1366,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-europe","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions\/9174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}