Searing heatwaves swept across China's vast Yangtze River basin, hammering densely populated megacities from the country's commercial hub Shanghai on the coast to Chengdu deep in the country's heartlands
More than 90 red alerts, the most severe in a three-rung warning system, were active across China as of 3:30 p.m. .
"The summer in Nanjing has never been hotter than this year compared with previous years," said a 77-year-old retiree in the city of over 9 million near Shanghai.The hashtag #heatstroke was trending on social media with 2.45 million views on the Weibo platform of discussions ranging from people being admitted to hospital to the detrimental effects of long-term heat exposure.
In the city of Yanjin, also in China's southwest, temperatures reached 44 degrees Celsius on Monday, the highest since recording-keeping started in 1959, state television reported on late Tuesday.
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