On the first day of the tightened corona measures in Saxony, the state capital Dresden is pretty orphaned. Hardly anyone is on the streets on Monday, only the dismantling work on the canceled Striezelmarkt is in full swing. Passers-by react differently to it: O-TON GÜNTHER KRAUSE, PASSANT (“So I’m completely unemotional because I’m never a big fan of the Christmas market.”) O-TON SARAH KRELL, PASSANTIN (“Very sad, because I think, man.” could have solved that with the 2G. The stalls are a bit apart. But yes, it hurts when you see that you have to dismantle everything that you have built up. “) O-TON PASSANT WITHOUT NAME ( “Sad but true. It looks nice, doesn’t it?”) On Friday, Saxony announced that it would break the corona wave with severe restrictions for unvaccinated people, the closure of cultural and leisure facilities and the cancellation of events such as Christmas markets. The number of infections in Saxony is still relatively high. The medical director of the university clinic here, Michael Albrecht, says he is assuming that there will be a general compulsory vaccination in the foreseeable future. “We still have 85 to 87 percent of the intensive care patients with the very severe courses who are not vaccinated. But without having to go to an intensive care unit, the rate of those vaccinated increases, and we are now around 40.45 percent “. There are regions in the area with vaccination rates of just over 40 percent. That means that one expects a massive further increase in the number of patients in the next few days and weeks.