{"id":1157757,"date":"2026-08-19T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1157757\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:22:38","slug":"7300-excess-deaths-and-counting-as-france-battles-historically-hot-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1157757\/","title":{"rendered":"7,300 excess deaths and counting as France battles historically hot summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">France saw more than 7,300 excess deaths during heatwaves so far this year, health authorities said on Wednesday, as the country also endured a record number of hot days since mid-June, according to an Agence France-Presse analysis.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">France has been hit by three summer heatwaves in quick succession: a 14-day spell in June, 16 days in July and another lasting 22 days that began in late July and has yet to be officially declared over as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Together they mean the country \u2013 parts of which are ill-equipped to deal with heat, and where air-conditioning is scarce \u2013 has endured a record 52 days of heatwaves since mid-June, according to the Agence France-Presse analysis.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sante Public France on Wednesday said it had recorded 1,243 more deaths than usual between July 2 and 22.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman turns on the fan in a bedroom of her flat at Place des Fetes during a hot summer day in Paris on July 29. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6c95c143-3250-47dc-8405-57977287d807_e1c9049e.jpg\" title=\"A woman turns on the fan in a bedroom of her flat at Place des Fetes during a hot summer day in Paris on July 29. Photo: AFP\"\/>A woman turns on the fan in a bedroom of her flat at Place des Fetes during a hot summer day in Paris on July 29. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That added to the 5,764 excess deaths recorded from June 17 to 30, and 300 deaths identified so far during the year\u2019s first period of high temperatures in late May, for a total of 7,307.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France saw more than 7,300 excess deaths during heatwaves so far this year, health authorities said on Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1157758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[34544,2000,299,36,34982,59243,13789,89769,314692,17669],"class_list":["post-1157757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-afp","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-french","tag-july","tag-june","tag-meteo-france","tag-sante-public-france","tag-western-europe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1157758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}