More than 2,600 people died this summer in Spain due to extreme heat

According to data from the Carlos III Public Health Institute, 1,149 people died in Spain for causes attributable to the high temperatures during the 16-day heat wave that ended Monday. This summer will have already occurred 2,635 deaths due to the extreme heat that has been felt.

Spain lived for 16 consecutive days, between 3 and 18 August.

This vacancy of heat was considered “the largest and longest”Since 1975, the year from which there are comparable records, said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

These 16 days, they registered 1,149 deaths “attributable to temperature”according to the platform “” of the Carlos III Health Institute, which monitors daily mortality in Spain. In some regions, temperatures reached 45 ° C.

In July, Spain had another heat wave during which 1,060 peoplealso for causes attributable to high temperatures, according to the same institute.

According to Momo data, this summer will have occurred 2,635 deaths attributable to the high temperatures.

The vast majority of heat -related deaths occurred in people with Over 65 years (2,529) And in particular, over 75 years old (2,347, of which 1,747 were 85 or more).

For sex, 1,579 of the dead were women and 1,056 men, according to the system managed by the National Center for Epidemiology, which makes their calculations based on a statistical projection crossing mortality data and the maximum temperature limits above which heat is a health risk, which then compares to those of the previous year.

O day with higher mortality attributable to extreme heat was the past Sunday, August 17, the date on which they registered 125 deathsNote a.

The heat wave of recent weeks has also coincided with forest fires in the country, which continue to control, especially in the regions of Galicia, Castile and Lion and Extremadura.

Perspectives improve with the end of the heat wave, but Prime Minister Pedro Sáchez says that “difficult hours ahead” in the fight against the fires and promised to implement a “state pact in the face of climate urgency.”