{"id":8056,"date":"2024-08-24T01:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T17:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2024-08-24T01:40:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T17:40:58","slug":"heat-wave-causes-28-deaths-3000-related-cases-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2024\/08\/24\/heat-wave-causes-28-deaths-3000-related-cases-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"HEAT WAVE CAUSES 28 DEATHS, 3,000 RELATED CASES IN SOUTH KOREA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;\u2013 The number of heat-related illnesses in South Korea has surged past 3,000 this year, with 28 deaths reported amid relentless heat waves sweeping the country, health authorities announced on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) recorded a total of 3,019 heat-related cases as of Wednesday, since monitoring began on May 20.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>This marks the second-highest number of cases ever recorded, surpassed only by the 4,526 cases reported in 2018, Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The latest figure has already outstripped the 2,818 cases recorded between May 20 and September 30 last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, the Korea Meteorological Administration has forecasted that the current heat wave, along with tropical nights, will likely persist through early September.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the capital Seoul, the frequency of tropical nights has reached a record high, with 36 nights recorded this summer as of Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>This includes a stretch of 33 consecutive days, the most prolonged period since modern meteorological observations began in 1907.&nbsp;<em>(Anadolu)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL&nbsp;&ndash; The number of heat-related illnesses in South Korea has surged past 3,000 this year, with 28 deaths reported amid relentless heat waves sweeping the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8058,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions\/8058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}