Europe’s Wuhan: inside Germany’s groundbreaking coronavirus experiment

Heinsberg has gone from ‘leper colony’ to ‘vanguard’ of German Covid-19 efforts

Berlin coronavirus
Medical volunteers move coronavirus test samples in Berlin
(Image credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Germany’s worst-hit district will be used as a real-life laboratory to study the spread of coronavirus.

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