25 November 2022 at 04:10 The heat waves in Europe may have claimed thousands of lives This year’s three summer months have been measured as the hottest summer ever in Europe, according to the EU’s climate monitoring Copernicus. This may have led to an excess mortality of more than 20,000 deaths, figures from several countries show. Excess mortality, the difference between the number of deaths in a given period measured against the historical average for the same period, was particularly high in the heat waves that hit Western Europe between June and August, reports Bloomberg.
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