let s stay with the subject of whether it s breaking news coming to us today from the uk health security agency. it has issued a weekend heat health alert. the heat health alert has been erased from yellow to a more severe amber, with warnings in three different regions of england, the midlands, eastern and southern england. the amber alert which is more severe than what we had before comes into effect from 9am on friday and indicates that high temperatures could affect the whole population and perhaps more importantly could also affect the health service. now this is what the weather watchers have been calling an iberian plume, a plume of very warm weather that has come in from the spanish peninsula. we will not last especially long and probably will be over by sunday but it comes and cuts across spain and portugal, bringing across spain and portugal, bringing a lot of high pressure and with it temperatures that could at some point touch 30 degrees, which may be normal for p
across spain and portugal, bringing across spain and portugal, bringing a lot of high pressure and with it temperatures that could at some point touch 30 degrees, which may be normal for point touch 30 degrees, which may be normalfor some point touch 30 degrees, which may be normal for some countries buffer here in england is very unusual to get those kinds of temperatures this early injune. so this warm plume is going to bring temperatures of up to 30 degrees in some parts of the uk. thunder then will be expected towards the end of next week. we are also expecting temperatures to impact people s help, so there is of course a warning for people to make sure they stay as cool as they possibly can, stay in shaded areas if they can and of course to drink as much water as possible. sojust to reiterate, this weather alert is a weather alert that has been brought to us by the uk health security agency. that s the agency which deals with the weather and how it impacts on health, and it said
The total tally in Spain has now reached 30, while 23 confirmed cases have now been identified in neighbouring Portugal, where nine new cases were detected on Friday. Madrid authorities have been working on tracing the cases mainly from a single outbreak in a sauna, regional health chief Enrique Ruiz Escudero told reporters on Friday.
By comparison, doctors usually see 20 children with acute hepatitis of unknown origin each year at the UK's three specialist pediatric hepatology units, Dr. Deirdre Kelly, a pediatric liver disease specialist at the University of Birmingham, told reporters on Thursday.