How Meissen became a corona hotspot

It rustles when Simone Krause leaves her seat. In the past, the sight of a car saleswoman in a yellow disposable smock would have been strange. Now everything is different in the Meissen district. The district between Dresden and Brandenburg, in which almost a quarter of a million people live, competes as a hotspot with Saxon Switzerland for first place in Saxony.

Agencies reported on Wednesday: “According to the Robert Koch Institute, the pandemic is most violent in the Meißen district.” Seven-day incidence: 1304.6. In Berlin it was 339 that day.

Corona is particularly present at the Krause car dealership in Großenhain, just under 20 kilometers north of the city of Meißen. As a result of the pandemic, semiconductor chips are in short supply. No cars without chips. “We have huge delivery bottlenecks.”