India faces dangerous heat

Hot summers are nothing new for India, but daytime temperatures are breaking records in the central and northern regions, and cities aren’t cooling down enough at night for the human body to recover. Hospitals have set up special units to deal with acute heat stress, which has already claimed at least 56 lives. Sushmita Pathak reports from New Delhi.

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