France records 2,025 excess deaths in June heatwave

France has recorded two thousand twenty-five excess deaths during a heat wave from June twenty-second through the twenty-eighth, according to France 24. The surge represents a nearly thirty percent jump in recorded deaths nationwide. The toll was even steeper in the Paris region, where mortality spiked sixty-two percent during the same period. Health authorities released the figures as the nation assesses the public health impact of extreme heat.

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