Heat-Related Illnesses Plunge as Extreme Heat Eases, with 28 Cases Reported Yesterday

The incidence of heat-related illnesses has decreased significantly as the intensity of the heat wave has somewhat subsided.

The number of patients, which had stayed in the triple digits daily this month, dropped to the double digits yesterday for the first time.

According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), 28 people visited around 500 emergency rooms nationwide yesterday for heat-related illnesses such as heat exhaustion.

No deaths were reported.

The number of heat-related illness patients ranged from 100 to 200 every day from August 1 to 8, but plunged to double digits as the hot weather somewhat abated.

Yesterday's figure marks a roughly 82% decrease in a single day compared to the 154 heat-related illness patients reported the day before.

By region, heat-related illness patients occurred in Gyeonggi with 6, Seoul with 5, and North Chungcheong Province with 4.

This brings the cumulative number of patients identified through the KDCA's heat-related illness surveillance system, which began operations on May 15 of this year, to a total of 3,320, with 30 presumed deaths from heat-related illnesses.
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