"Heinsberg is a Kreis (district) in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with the town of Heinsberg as its capital. Neighbouring districts are Viersen, Neuss, Düren ...
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and Aachen, the city of Mönchengladbach and the Dutch province Limburg.
The district became a center of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Germany. The Robert Koch Institute listed Heinsberg as especially affected area ("besonders betroffenes Gebiet"). The district was, since the first local cases in the area, around 2 weeks “ahead“ of the rest of Germany. Students of the University of Bonn started to use the affected area as a testing site to study the novel coronavirus and to search for ways to handle the situation in the best possible way." - (en.wikipedia.org 10.04.2020)
- Latitude51
- Longitude6.1700000762939
- Population252651
