Many people die from heat in June
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In Austria, June 2026 was very hot. The heat was dangerous for many people. 395 people died because of the heat. There were never so many heat deaths in June before. This is almost as much as all traffic deaths last year. Health minister Korinna Schumann calls the numbers shocking. The heat is a big danger for life.
In many places it was over 35 degrees hot. In Wien there was a record of 40 degrees. In Bad Deutsch-Altenburg it was even 40.1 degrees. The high heat strains the body very much. Especially the heart and lungs suffer from it. Also the rescue service had a lot of work. In Wien there were more operations than ever before. On one day there were almost 1400 emergency calls.
The experts from AGES evaluated the data quickly. Earlier that took much longer. Now the government knows faster. So it can warn people better. Especially old people and small children need protection. Also pregnant women and sick people must be careful. The heat-waves come more often because of climate-change. Austria wants to improve the heat-protection-plan.
In many places it was over 35 degrees hot. In Wien there was a record of 40 degrees. In Bad Deutsch-Altenburg it was even 40.1 degrees. The high heat strains the body very much. Especially the heart and lungs suffer from it. Also the rescue service had a lot of work. In Wien there were more operations than ever before. On one day there were almost 1400 emergency calls.
The experts from AGES evaluated the data quickly. Earlier that took much longer. Now the government knows faster. So it can warn people better. Especially old people and small children need protection. Also pregnant women and sick people must be careful. The heat-waves come more often because of climate-change. Austria wants to improve the heat-protection-plan.
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Definitions
- Agency for Health and Food Safety
- AGES is an organization in Austria. It checks food and watches the health of people.
- Climate change
- The climate on earth changes. It gets warmer all over the world. This is mainly because of human behavior.
- Heat wave
- A heat-wave is a time with very hot weather. The weather stays very hot for several days or weeks.
People
- Korinna Schumann
- She is a politician of the SPÖ party. Korinna Schumann is the health minister of Austria.
Locations
- Austria
- A country in Europe. It is the country this article reports about.
- Vienna
- Wien is the capital of Austria. It was very hot there in June.
- Bad Deutsch-Altenburg
- A place in Lower Austria. A temperature record for June was measured there.
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