Since 2014, between 30,000 and 35,000 people have died in the summer in France due to the effects of the heat, the French public health agency estimated on Friday, stressing that this mortality did not only concern periods of heat wave.
“It should be noted that a large part – a third – concerns people under the age of 75”, underlines this study published by Public Health France, one of the first to assess the links between heat and mortality in the country. in recent years, in a context marked by the probable effects of global warming.