Stéphanie Rist

At least 2,000 more deaths were reported than in the previous week when temperatures were already climbing and filling emergency wards with heat victims

Temperatures did not drop below 20C at more than 100 meteorological stations overnight

In Germany, a new nighttime temperature record was reported Sunday from Kubschütz, in eastern Saxony, where the temperature did not drop below 29.4 degrees Celsius (84.9 Fahrenheit)

France 24's Antonia Kerrigan reports from the Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, one of the largest hospitals in Paris, where the emergency department recorded around 3,000 admissions on Friday alone because of the extreme heat, a 36% increase compared with a normal day

Organisers of the Paris Pride March on Friday postponed the annual event scheduled for Saturday after police ordered them to change the date to avoid overwhelming response services already under pressure due to extreme heat

Parisians will be temporarily barred on Friday from buying and drinking alcohol in public, as the city authorities try to limit the strain on France’s health system amid record-breaking heat

As debate continues over school closures and disruption during the heatwave, Independent readers are divided over where responsibility should lie when extreme temperatures make classrooms uncomfortable or potentially unsafe

As Britain experiences its hottest June day in history, experts demand that the government take action on key infrastructure, as thousands of schools shut down and three hospitals declare critical incidents

Parisians will be temporarily barred on Friday from buying and drinking alcohol in public, as the city authorities try to limit the strain on France’s health system amid record-breaking heat

Parisians will be temporarily barred on Friday from buying and drinking alcohol in public, as the city authorities try to limit the strain on France’s health system amid record-breaking heat

He also asked ministers for their views on establishing maximum workplace temperatures, prescribing active cooling such as air conditioning and changing school timetables

Europe braced Wednesday for another day of a sweltering heatwave that has smashed records, left tens of thousands of people without power and sent air conditioner sales zooming in a continent unused and ill equipped to handle searing heat

A heat wave sweeping across Europe is turning temperatures lethal, with more than 40 deaths reported since June 18 in a region where extreme heat kills an estimated 175,000 people each year—roughly four times the toll of gun deaths in the United States

Europe is sizzling under an early heat wave this week with millions of people experiencing extremely high temperatures

The children, aged two and four, were found by firefighters in cardiac arrest inside their mother’s car after a call at around 1.20pm on Monday afternoon

Hundreds of schools shut under punishing French heatwave

France introduces alcohol ban as heatwave grips Europe

Orders are being finalised ​and reimbursement is expected to be ​effective by mid-June

Canada confirmed its first hantavirus case on Saturday after a passenger on board the cruise ship MV Hondius tested positive

The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius set off alarms for a world still traumatized by Covid

Its legacy is evident in the widespread adoption of remote work, the personal choice of some to wear masks and the enduring presence of hand sanitizer dispensers in public spaces

The news triggered more fear after a Dutch hospital quarantined 12 staff members in a preventive measure after blood and urine from a hantavirus patient were handled without observing strict protocols

The Britons, who were evacuated on Monday (May 11) from the ill-fated vessel at the centre of an international healthcare scandal, have been required to undertake a 42-day isolation period upon returning to the UK, beginning with a 72-hour stay at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral