France records 1,000 excess daily deaths as record heatwave broken by severe storms

According to ABC News Australia, France has recorded roughly one thousand excess deaths per day from a record-breaking heatwave—the most severe heat scientists say Europe has ever experienced. More than one hundred fifty million Europeans have been sweltering in dangerous temperatures, which were finally broken by severe storms. The scale of casualties represents an unprecedented public health crisis for the continent.

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