South and Southeast Asia braced for more extreme heat today as authorities across the region issued health warnings and residents fled to parks and air-conditioned shopping centres for relief.
A wave of exceptionally hot weather has blasted the region over the past week, sending the mercury as high as 45C and forcing thousands of schools to tell students to stay home.
The hot weather persisted today, with many flocking to air-conditioned shopping centres and swimming pools 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. Myanmar has recorded temperatures that are 3-4C higher than the April average, its weather monitor said last week.
Temperatures in Vietnam were also forecast to remain high during a five-day national holiday, with forecasts as high as 41C in the north. The world's biggest democracy is in the middle of a six-week general election that saw millions of voters queue up in searing temperatures on Friday.
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