'Unprecedented': France records 5,764 excess deaths during June-July heatwave period

France 24 reports that health authorities recorded five thousand seven hundred sixty-four more deaths than the normal rate between June seventeenth and July second. Officials said Wednesday that the excess mortality was attributed to all causes, though the period coincided with a stretch of extreme heatwaves across several French regions.

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