Lord’s Cricket Ground, one of the centres in Westminster offering Covid-19 vaccinations

• IN the January 15 Extra you printed the photograph (above) of a group of elderly people, one in a wheelchair, queueing in the rain outside Lord’s Cricket Ground for a Covid-19 vaccination.

It is January, it is cold, it is raining, and this week a really bad storm is forecast. Please tell me, if you had an elderly relative, especially one with a condition that made them vulnerable to any infection, let alone Covid-19, would you be happy to have them standing outdoors getting soaked to the skin and chilled to the bone?

Steps are being taken in countless places all over the country to try to avoid this very situation. But here in Westminster?

With every single hotel in the West End empty and unable to trade, would it be beyond the mind of man (or Westminster City Council) to set up a vaccination hub in an empty hotel, so that people, correctly socially distanced, could queue indoors, in the foyer, before being taken into a room to receive their vaccination?

Or are the city council so oblivious to the needs of residents that they haven’t lifted a finger, let alone a phone, to arrange something so elementary that it has been implemented long since elsewhere?

ALIDA BAXTER
Broadwick Street, W1