The US senator was hospitalized with dehydration due to the abnormal heat in Washington.

US Senator from the Democratic Party Chuck Schumer was hospitalized with dehydration due to the heat that hit the northeastern region of the United States. This was reported on June 25 by The New York Post (NYP).

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was taken to a local hospital on Wednesday morning for treatment of dehydration as the northeast struggles with sweltering heat.

It is specified that the 74-year-old parliamentarian felt unwell during a visit to the Senate gym. Later, a representative of Schumer said that the politician was briefly hospitalized, but soon left the medical facility and returned to work.

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On June 25, it was reported that 11 people received heat stroke in the Irkutsk region in two weeks. Two victims were hospitalized. Since June 19, an abnormal heat wave has been established in the Angara region, in some places the air temperature exceeds +35 degrees.