A wave of exceptionally hot weather has blasted the region over the past week, sending the mercury as high as 45 deg C.
MANILA - South and South-east Asia braced itself for more extreme heat on April 28 as authorities across the region issued health warnings and residents fled to parks and air-conditioned malls for relief.
“I dare not go out in the daytime. I am worried we would get heatstroke,” said a 39-year-old cashier in Myanmar’s Yangon who gave her name as San Yin. The ministry of water and meteorology in Cambodia warned that temperatures could also hit 43 deg C in some parts of the country in the week ahead, while the health ministry advised people to monitor their health “during hot weather related to climate change”.
Students leaving their school compound carry umbrellas on a hot summer day in Dhaka on April 28 amid the ongoing heatwave. PHOTO: AFP “The heat is too much,” she told AFP. “She already got heat rashes from sweating. I hope she does not get sick.”School closures The hot weather persisted on April 28, with many flocking to air-conditioned shopping malls and swimming pools for relief.
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