Symptoms that seem to be heat stroke Abortion of junior high school athletic meet aborted Iwate Kamaishi August 29, 18:49
In Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture, which recorded a maximum temperature of 35 degrees Celsius, a series of students complaining of poor physical condition during the athletic meet in junior high school, and the athletic meet was terminated. All of them were considered to have heat stroke, and one girl student was taken to the hospital, but she is conscious.
According to Kamaishi Higashi Junior High School in Kamaishi City, 8 men and women from 1st grade to 3rd grade complained of dizziness and other heatstroke symptoms one after another when they had been holding an athletic meet in the playground from 9:00 am on the 29th.
Of these, a 13-year-old female student was taken to the hospital, but she is conscious. In addition, the other seven people have recovered their physical condition by taking water and resting in the health room.
In response to this, the athletic meet was terminated around 11 am.
According to the meteorological observatory, a maximum temperature of 35 degrees was observed in Kamaishi City before 11:00 am on the 29th.
At this junior high school, athletic meet is held in May every year, but it was postponed due to the influence of the new coronavirus, so the rest of the competition will be held at a cool time later.
Kamaishi Higashi Junior High School says, "We took measures such as shortening the competition time and taking sufficient breaks, but we gave priority to the physical condition of the child and interrupted it."