The heat wave has already killed more than 70 people in Japan – 24/07/2018

At least 77 people have died in Japan since July 9 because of the heat wave and 30,000 people have been transferred to the hospital, according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo News.

Older Japanese are the group that suffers the most because of the wave of Half of the people who were transferred to different hospitals in the country were over 65 years old. Last Saturday, 11 people died, almost all of them elderly, including two couples over 70 years old. found dead in their respective homes in Tokyo and Osaka.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said that a heat wave had swept the country like a disaster It was natural and has issued a warning for high temperatures in most of the country.

Monday, Kumagaya, a city north of Tokyo, reported a temperature of 41.1 degrees, the highest ever recorded in Japan.

In the center of Tokyo, temperatures above 40 degrees were also recorded for the first time.

The natural disaster caused the greatest number of people who needed hospital care for a heat wave in ten years, when these cases began to be recorded in official documents.

In addition, it is triple the number of people they required medical care because of the high temperatures of the same period last year.

According to meteorologists, the heat wave shows no sign of a decrease.

Source: EFE