Seven people died in South Korea within two months due to the scorching heat

The scorching hot weather has persisted, and cases of heat exhaustion, heatstroke and other febrile diseases have emerged one after another in various parts of South Korea, among which seven people have died.

Yonhap News Agency reported that the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said on Monday (July 7) that the authorities launched the "Warm Disease Surveillance and Early Warning System" on May 15. As of July 6, there were a total of 875 warm disease patients across the country, among whom seven died.

On July 6th alone, 59 people across the country went to emergency rooms due to symptoms of warm illness, and two of them died despite treatment.

According to the monitoring statistics on May 20th last year, the number of patients in the same period this year was 859, an increase of 390 compared with 469 in the same period last year, with a growth rate of 83.2%. This year's death toll is twice as many as last year's three.

By type of onset, among the cases that emerged this year, heat exhaustion accounted for 54.6%, heatstroke 20.1%, heat convulsions 13.7%, and heat syncope 9.8%. Among them, patients over 65 years old accounted for 33.3% of the total.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed that outdoor labor in high-temperature weather remains the main cause, accounting for 25.6%. They are farmland (16.6%) and roadside (14.1%) in sequence.