The cold wave that hit Russia and Eastern Europe, has already killed 194, according to a report conducted Friday, December 21. In Russia, where temperatures drop week below -20 ° C in Moscow and near -50 ° C in parts of Siberia, 56 people died of cold since December 14.
In Ukraine, the record is 83 people. Among them, 57 lived on the streets, said an adviser to the Minister of Health Vladimir Yurchenko, without specifying how long. He added, quoted by the Interfax news agency that 526 people were currently hospitalized victims of the cold.
The cold is expected to continue until Monday
In Poland, police said Friday that 49 people had died of cold since December 1. The cold had killed 19 people in December 2011 and 134 deaths a year earlier. Lithuania, at least six people died due to cold in recent weeks according to police and medical sources said.
These freezing temperatures “abnormal” should remain until Monday because of the persistence of anti-cyclone, according to the Russian Meteorological Centre. In the European part of Russia, the mercury is expected to fall to -31 ° C Monday, then rose sharply. In other countries of Eastern Europe, also hit in recent days by the wave of cold and snow, temperatures begin to return to normal.
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