Agnes Buzyn, health minister of France has said that 1500 people died in this summer’s heat wave in France. There were over 1,000 more deaths that the annual average for the time of the year, and half of those were aged over 75 years. She said there were 18 days of recorded heat wave in France this year during June and July. She said: “We have succeeded — thanks to prevention, thanks to workable messages the French population heeded — to reduce fatalities by a factor of 10.”
1500 people died in this summer’s heat wave in France : Minister Agnes Buzyn
