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The French Minister of Solidarity and Health, Agnès Boussin, announced that 1,500 people were killed because of the heat wave that swept the country during the months of June and July.
"The authorities have identified an additional 1,500 deaths in these two months, half of whom are people over 70, but the death toll also includes young people whose heat has had a negative impact on their health." , she said Sunday on the radio.
The French Health Minister noted that 18 days of summer were very hot and that about 20 million people have suffered in one way or another.
According to the radio "France Info", data from the French Ministry of Health indicate 1435 deaths last summer, including 567 deaths in late June and early July, and 858 deaths during the second heat wave in late July.
However, the radio pointed out that this number is well below the culmination of the extraordinary wave of vigilance that occurred in France in the summer of 2003, when heat-related accidents caused an additional 15,000 deaths.
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