India, June 29 -- The ongoing heatwave across Europe, which has severely disrupted daily life in several countries, has been linked to more than 1,300 excess deaths since June 21, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday.

According to reports, temperature records continued to tumble across the continent, with countries including Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic experiencing soaring temperatures.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on X that Europe is warming at an alarming pace.

"Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average. Right now, 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling," he wrote.

He adde...