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full screen Smog over Mexico City. The picture was taken on May 22. Photo: Marco Ugarte/AP/TT
Mexico has suffered 48 deaths in recent months as a result of a series of heat waves that swept across the Central American country since March.
Another nearly 1,000 people have suffered from several types of heat-related health problems during the same period, according to the country’s health ministry.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has described this year’s heat as “exceptional”.
– It is a very regrettable natural phenomenon that has to do with climate change, he said recently at one of his daily press meetings.
In the capital, Mexico Ciy, the thermometer showed 34.3 degrees on May 9 – a new record. According to researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, more heat records could be broken in the next two weeks.