Health estimates that the heat caused more than a thousand deaths until Tuesday

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The

estimates that the deaths attributable to the

registered until this Tuesday, when the

were more than a thousand people, specifically

with Monday and Tuesday as the days with the most

184.

According to statistics from

(MoMo) of the Carlos III Health Institute, "observed and estimated" deaths from causes attributable to

were on the rise: on the 10th there were 15 deaths, 28 on Monday. eleven;

41 on Tuesday, 60 on Wednesday, 93 on Thursday, 123 on Friday and

.

On Sunday the figure rose to 169 while on Monday and Tuesday the number of

was repeated .

Of the

, it is estimated that 672 are over 85 years old, 241 are between 75 and 84, and another 88 would have died between 65 and 74 years.

The objective of

is "to identify the deviations of observed daily mortality with respect to that expected, according to the

", and allows "indirectly estimating" the impact of any event of importance in

.

Conforms to The Trust Project criteria

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