India, June 29 -- As a record-breaking heatwave grips large parts of Europe, the head of the World Health Organization said the extreme climate may be responsible for at least 1300 deaths across the continent in late June.
"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", WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.
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