{"id":30298,"date":"2026-07-13T04:43:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=30298"},"modified":"2026-07-13T05:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:01:54","slug":"more-than-10000-excess-deaths-reported-after-europe-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/07\/more-than-10000-excess-deaths-reported-after-europe-heatwave\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 10,000 excess deaths reported after Europe heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isselectedend\"><strong>More than 10,000 excess deaths were reported during the heatwave that engulfed Western Europe in late June 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isselectedend\">Reuters reported on Monday (July 13) that, according to EuroMOMO data, 10,650 excess deaths were recorded in late June. The heatwave brought record-breaking temperatures to several countries, including France, Spain, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isselectedend\">The extreme heat disrupted power supplies, forced schools to close, and shattered temperature records in France, Spain, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>More than 9,000 of the excess deaths were among people aged 65 and older.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme heat can cause heat stroke and worsen heart and respiratory diseases, with older people among the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10,000 excess deaths were reported during the heatwave that engulfed Western Europe in late June 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,30,244],"tags":[2020,145,2021],"class_list":["post-30298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-environment","category-europe","tag-deaths","tag-europe","tag-heatwave"],"views":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30298"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30304,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298\/revisions\/30304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}