The south and interior of Mallorca and the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range are on red alert.
The Pitiusas and Menorca, as well as the north and northeast of Mallorca, are on orange alert.
The Epidemiology Service, which reports to the Directorate General of Public Health of the Regional Ministry of Health, has today, for the third time in recent days, sent out a series of alert notifications to various institutions to adopt measures to mitigate the effects of the high temperatures on the general population.
The maximum alert, red, has been decreed in the interior of Mallorca (39.5 degrees), in the south of the island (36.9) and in the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range, where maximum temperatures of 36.4 degrees are expected. The orange alert has been decreed in the north and northeast of Mallorca (36.9 degrees), in Eivissa and Formentera (34.8) and Menorca (34.1). Only the Llevant de Mallorca, which recorded maximum temperatures of 35.1 degrees, is on yellow alert, the first level of severity that does not require these notifications.
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Public Health puts the entire Balearic archipelago on high-temperature alert except for the Llevant de Mallorca
The first alerts of this summer season were issued last Sunday and Monday, days in which the interior of Mallorca was on red alert, while Menorca and the rest of the island of Mallorca, except the Llevant area, were on orange alert, the second level of severity from which these notifications are issued. Today, the risk situation has been extended to more areas of the Balearic archipelago.
Over the past three days, the Epidemiology Service has sent notifications to the Health and Social Services Departments; to all the Island Councils, so that they in turn can alert their most affected municipalities; to Palma City Council, as the largest local authority in the Balearic Islands; to the Balearic Institute of Health and Safety, to the Balearic Institute of Health and Safety, to the Balearic Institute of Health and Safety, and to the Balearic Institute of Health and Safety; the Balearic Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (IBASSAL); the 112 and 061 emergency services; and the central services of the Health Service to alert their hospitals and public health care facilities, as well as the medical directors and managers of private clinics. The Team for the Promotion of Integrated Care in Nursing Homes, which coordinates more fluid care for this fragile group, has also been alerted.
Public Health launches these alerts after receiving a warning from the Ministry of Health which, based on a different method than the one used by the State Meteorological Agency and which is based on a calculation using algorithms of the last three days, establishes which specific areas of the country high temperatures can affect human health.