According to the data collected by the Daily Mortality Monitoring (MoMo) statistics due to excess temperature, we would be talking about about 70 deaths per day during this month due to heat
The high temperatures have left this month of July until 2,176 deathsas estimated by the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), dependent on the Ministry of Health.
Thus, with the latest data collected by the Daily Mortality Monitoring (MoMo) statistic due to excess temperature (from Saturday 30, with 51 estimated deaths), we would be talking about about 70 deaths a day during this month.
Heat waves: an aggravating factor
At a detailed level, the first day of the heat waveon Sunday the 10th, there were, according to ISCIII estimates, 15 deaths attributable to temperature. Since then, there would have been a continuous escalationsince the next day, Monday the 11th, 28 estimated deaths were recorded due to excess temperature.
This data rose to Tuesday’s estimated 41 cases July 12 and until 60 on Wednesday the 13th. The next day, July 14, was, along with Friday, one of the worst days of the heat wave, since in some municipalities values close to 44 or 45ºC were recorded, such as in the Tagus, Guadiana and Guadalquivir valleys. ; 42ºC in the Miño valley and 41ºC in the Ebro valley and in the central area.
According to ISCIII estimates, andOn Thursday, July 14, there were 93 deaths due to the heata number that increased until 123 on Friday the 15th. On Saturday the 16th the data was 150. Until reaching the peak of 184, which occurred on Tuesday, July 19. Since then, the number of deaths attributable to heat has decreased, in line with the drop in temperatures.
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The data comes from the ISCIII MoMo system, which makes statistical estimates of excess mortality for a given day comparing historical series.
“Calculates and infers values relative to all causes and attributable to temperature, not exact numbers of deaths. In other words, the figures seen in the MoMo Panel are not deceased persons (it is not a death registry), but the result of the statistical calculation in the form of an estimate. In short, it is not correct to say that this heat wave has caused X deaths of people,” ISCIII sources tell Europa Press.