Due to Corona, many people will order online for Christmas 2020.
But what if Corona breaks out at Amazon?
This is exactly what happened in Garbsen.
Christmas
and
Amazon 2020
:
Corona *
does
not stop
at
online trading
.
60 employees have already tested positive for the
corona virus
in an
Amazon
sorting center
- there are also high numbers in a distribution center in Bavaria.
Corona in Lower Saxony
: The sorting center is located near
Hanover
.
Göttingen / Hanover - Due to the rampant
Corona virus
, shops have to close during the run-up to Christmas: That is why
more
gifts
will probably be
ordered online
for
Christmas 2020
.
The front runner here is the online retailer Amazon.
Sorting center Garbsen
Company: Amazon
Opening: 2019
Area 30,000 m2
But of course
Amazon
employees are also
exposed to the risk of being
infected
with the
corona virus
.
Are the orders for
Christmas 2020
at risk if several employees have to be
quarantined
?
There is already one such case
in
Lower Saxony
.
In an
Amazon
sorting center in Garbsen near
Hanover
, 60 people have been proven to have been
infected
with the
corona virus
.
Corona at Amazon: Health Department got an idea on site
In the middle of the Christmas business *, 60 employees of the
Amazon
sorting center in Garbsen near
Hanover became
infected
with the
corona virus
.
This was also confirmed by the responsible health department.
Accordingly, the health department got an idea of the situation on site at the beginning of the week.
The next steps are currently being coordinated between the health department of the Hanover region and the local management.
Health Department - Region Hannover
In a statement that the dpa has received,
Amazon announced
that the effectiveness of the measures taken has been confirmed by the health department.
According to the group,
more than 900 people
will be
employed
at the
Amazon
site in Garbsen
during the
2020 Christmas season
.
First, the "Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung" reported on the outbreak.
Christmas and Corona: Outbreak hits one of the most modern sorting centers in Europe
The
Amazon
sorting center in Garbsen, where more than 60 employees have currently tested positive for the
corona virus
, is one of the most modern in
Europe
.
The Amazon center opened in March 2019.
Back then, it was
Amazon's
first automated sorting center
in
Germany
.
At the beginning 300 employees worked in the 30,000 square meter site.
In the run-up to Christmas there are over 900 employees.
Amazon's
sorting center
has almost 5
kilometers of
conveyor belt.
Parcels sometimes reach a speed of 9 kilometers per hour.
Corona before Christmas: Amazon in Bavaria also hit hard
As it became known during the day, it also
hit
an
Amazon location
in the Free State of
Bavaria
hard.
Around a quarter of the employees there were infected with the corona virus, as reported by merkur.de *.
In the
Amazon
distribution center in
Bayreuth,
250 people are currently
working in the
period
before
Christmas 2020
.
In normal operation there are only 100. Currently, 61 employees at the location have tested positive for Corona.
Amazon Bayreuth: Despite the high number of infections, operations will continue
The
Amazon location
only
started operations
in
October 2020
.
A company
spokesman for Amazon has
already announced to
the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation that
operations will be maintained despite the high infection rate.
Corona pandemic: 61 employees in the Amazon distribution center in Bayreuth infected!
|
https://t.co/Ds4MRBSEqY https://t.co/Ph6e6OPVwy #oberfranken #corona #coronavirus
- TV Oberfranken (@tv_oberfranken) December 16, 2020
Similar to the Amazon location in Garbsen,
an inspection of the location by the district administration took
place in
Bayreuth
.
No major deficiencies were found, according to the district office.
How many people have to be
quarantined
in total
has not yet been conclusively clarified.
The determination of the contact persons is still ongoing.
Corona pandemic at Christmas: That's what Amazon says about the current situation
As the cases in Garbsen and Bayreuth show,
many situations are unpredictable
during the
2020 corona pandemic
.
What effect this has on the
Christmas gifts
ordered
from
Amazon
and how
Amazon
reacts to the current situation: We asked.
At the
request of our editorial team
, Amazon announced that they are
expected to
spend
$ 10 billion
in 2020
in connection with the corona pandemic.
A total of
150 processes
in
Amazon's
logistics area were
converted to prevent infections with the
corona virus
, according to the company.
In
Germany
alone
, the US company has bought the following
pandemic
containment
products
:
470 million hand sanitizers
21 million pairs of gloves
19 million mouth and nose protection utensils
39 million packs of disinfectant wipes
Gifts despite Corona: Will Amazon still be able to deliver in Germany towards the end of 2020?
In the week before
Christmas,
most of the customers of the online retailer
Amazon should be
concerned with this question: Will the ordered gifts arrive in time for the festival?
We
asked
Amazon
for you
.
Amazon is
also
well prepared for
the Christmas business
in 2020
, the company announced in response to our request.
In figures, this means that in addition to around
16,000
employees, another
10,000
seasonal workers were hired.
Thousands of additional employees are currently on duty
at the logistics partners of the
Amazon Group
to guarantee
on-time
delivery
.
According to
Amazon
, every possible means will be tried to meet the
specified delivery date
.
The
Amazon shop
is currently
also showing whether the
product will
arrive
by
Christmas
.
(Lucas Maier with dpa)
* hna.de and merkur.de are part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network.
