Tokyo reports most heat-related hospitalisations since 2010, one dead
- Japan's Disaster Management Agency recorded 10,857 heatstroke hospitalizations from July 13 through July 19, marking the first weekly total exceeding 10,000 this year.
- Describing the surge as a "disaster," the Disaster Management Agency noted 14 deaths and hospitalizations about 2.4 times higher than the previous week.
- Among the cases, homes accounted for 4,523 hospitalizations, while people age 65 or older comprised 62% of the total, according to the Disaster Management Agency.
- Heatstroke alerts cover 39 prefectures as the Japan Meteorological Agency forecasts temperatures reaching 40 Celsius in Nagoya, Gifu, Kyoto, and Kofu on Thursday.
- Authorities urge staying in air-conditioned spaces as temperatures remain above 30 Celsius overnight, while human-induced climate change intensifies such severe heat waves.
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Hundreds hospitalised in Japan heatwave 'disaster'
A total 453 people had hospital treatment for heat-related issues on Wednesday, the most since records began in 2010, the Tokyo Fire Department said. Emergency callouts were also at the highest level since at least 1963.
At least 14 people died from heat-related causes last week. At the same time, nearly 11,000 people sought emergency medical care in Japan.
Tokyo faced on Wednesday a wave of extreme heat causing an unprecedented number of hospitalizations since 2010, as the authorities call for vigilance in the face of this phenomenon The capital
Four Japanese localities experienced torrid temperatures above 40°C, one day described as "kokushobi" by the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA), a neologism that can be translated as "a cruelly hot day." This term was invented to attract more public attention to heat-related alerts, even if it does not trigger any official national measurements. At least six other locations recorded temperatures of 39.8°C on Wednesday.
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Hola NewsJapan faced on Thursday one of its hottest days of the year, in the midst of a wave of extreme temperatures that has left at least 14 dead and a record of more than 10,000 hospitalized in a week, weather alerts and a shortage of ambulances in the capital. For the third day in a row, the archipelago records high temperatures that
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