Local mass vaccination centres well organised and busy
Mass Vaccination Centres at Ealing Town Hall and in Southall Well Organised and Busy
Thank goodness local NHS people are organising these centres in Ealing. With regard to the Dominion Centre in Southall it would help if those attending were given information on its location and on car parking arrangements. Behind the centre is a large coin operated car park.
Both centres are doing 600 vaccinations/day. The only constraint to seven day working is supply of the vaccine – but often it’s seven days/week, 8am to 8pm.
St John’s Church, Mattock Lane, West Ealing is the Likely Third Ealing Mass Vaccination Centre
Covid-19 Infection Rates Falling Across Ealing – but Are Still High in Parts of Southall and Northolt
The highest rate in the latest figures is Southall Green at 1,226.1/100,000. The lowest is Elthorne Park at 373. Of the latest daily figures across 10 Ealing neighbourhoods, 9 have dropped and one has stayed the same. The overall rate for Ealing has fallen to 771.2. However this rate is second only to Hounslow (785.2) as the worst London borough infection rate.
Ealing Hospital Covid-19 Care Featured on Channel 4 News
This harrowing account was screened on Saturday 23 January 2021. We learned that eight of the 10 Wards are Covid-19 Wards. There are 180 Covid-19 patients and there are 10 Intensive Care Unit beds. What many viewers will not know is that from 2012 to March 2019 Ealing Hospital was under threat of being downsized, the number of beds reduced, and A&E being closed down. Many of us feared it would be closed down as a District Hospital. You can view the news piece here.
Judge Rules Against TfL Covid-19 Road Closures and Pop-up Cycle Lanes
On 20 January 2021 Mrs Justice Laing ruled that the London Mayor’s guidance to town halls on reducing car use and increasing walking and cycling was ‘unlawful’, ‘irrational’, ‘not evidence based’, and ordered it to be squashed. One significant aspect of the judgement is that TfL’s Order ‘fails to be judged in the context of the extent to which it impacts adversely on disabled and elderly people’.
This High Court judgement probably bodes well for the outcome of a legal challenge in the High Court on 11 February 2021. At this hearing, activists objecting to five Ealing Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) schemes will join others to see if a Judge finds grounds for a full Judicial Review. The other London borough LTN schemes being evaluated are those in Hackney, Hounslow, Lambeth and Camden.
Ealing Council has announced it will issue new LTN Emergency Traffic Orders (ETOs) which will come into force on 17 February 2021. The public consultation phase will now stretch to August 2021. Having to raise new ETOs is clearly a tacit admission that the Council got it wrong with the initial 2020 ETOs.
Eric Leach
eric.alan.leach@gmail.com
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January 26, 2021
