Thailand's Ministry of Health reported that at least 30 people have died so far this year from conditions linked to heat stroke, while authorities issued a warning this Thursday.new alert due to high temperatures.
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Heat stroke occurs when the body temperature rises rapidly and is difficult to lower. This can pose a risk to life by causing damage. in the brain and other vital organs.
Heat wave in Asia.
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The Thai Department of Meteorology, which already warned this week of the scourge of an extreme heat wave that could trigger temperatures up to 44 degrees, issued a nationwide alert and indicated that Bangkok, the country's capital and most populated city, could reach 40.1 degrees.
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On Tuesday, thermometers reached 44.2 degrees in the central province of Lampang, near the 44.6 degrees which the western province of Tak reached last year, the highest temperature ever detected in the Asian country.
This unusually strong heat wave It has also hit other countries in South and Southeast Asia, such as Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Last October, the UN and the Red Cross indicated in a joint report that heat waves will be more frequent, intense and deadly in the future due to climate change, and could even “exceed human, psychological and social limits” in regions such as the Sahel, the Horn of Africa or South Asia.
EFE
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