Higher temperatures from today will have Shanghai authorities on
the alert for serious health problems, Shanghai Daily
reported.
Heat has become an important factor in disease and death, said
Song Guixiang, director with the Shanghai Center for Disease
Control and Prevention.
An older resident with his
head wrapped in a cooling towel rides a bicycle on Shanghai's
Huangpi Road N. yesterday while his younger companion holds an
umbrella to shade from the baking sun. Yesterday's temperatures
topped 37 degrees Celsius, the 16th day this summer that the
mercury has hovered above 35.
(Shanghai Daily July 26, 2007)
