During the last week Baku city ambulance (BCA) station provided assistance to seven people with a diagnosis of "sunstroke", three of them were hospitalized. In total, over the summer the BCA provided first aid to 50 people who suffered from sunstroke; 17 of them were hospitalized.
In recent days, in large parts of Azerbaijan, including Baku the air temperature reached 40-degree.
Therefore, doctors recommend not to be in the open air. Labor Inspectorate urged employers in the hottest time of day to stop working. According to the Ministry of Environment, the high temperature will continue until 11 August. In Baku and Absheron the temperature will be + 35 + 39 degrees, in regions of the country +35 to + 40 degrees, in some places up to 42 degrees.-03B-
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Georgian law enforcement has detained an ethnic Azerbaijani in Marneuli who gained international attention through a viral video showing him stuffing a stack of ballots into a voting box, according to Shalva Papuashvili, a member of the political council of the "Georgian Dream" party and the parliament chair.
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On October 28, Baku experienced rain once again. As with five days earlier, streets and homes in the capital flooded. Fortunately, unlike the previous incident, no fatalities occurred this time in waterlogged tunnels. (On October 22, two people drowned in a tunnel flooded with rainwater in Sabunchu district.)
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Two women have died from mushroom poisoning in the Khachmaz region, located 200 km north of Baku. According to Azar Magsudov, the head of the toxicology department at the Clinical Medical Center (CMC), the victims were 46 and 41 years old.
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Changeable weather is expected in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula; rain is possible in some areas in the evening and fog in the morning and evening. Northwest wind will change to the southeast.
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