Tendring has been recently listed as being in the top ten highest Covid outbreaks in the country.

Tendring has a population of about 145,000 of which about 30 per cent are 65+. About 32,500 of the population are 70+, and about 11,500 of these are 80+.

The NHS Essex Partnership University trust is handling the vaccination programme for north-east Essex.

So far vaccinations for north-east Essex only appear to have been carried out at Colchester hospital (4,000 in December), Colchester Primary Care (1,000 in December) and Tendring St Helena Hospice (1,000 in December).

North East Essex is scheduled to have one more vaccination centre opening at the Fryatt Hospital, Harwich, this week.

For Clacton residents, the St Helena Hospice is the closest, but there is extremely limited parking nearby making it very difficult for disabled people.

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Colchester is about a 30 to 45-minute drive and Harwich is a 45-minute drive.

St Helena hospice only appears to be doing about 1,000 vaccines a week, it did not appear to be doing any on Monday, January 11 at 11.30am.

If we assume that there are about a further 5,000 extremely vulnerable patients under 70 in Tendring, we have 37,500 first vaccinations needed to be done by mid February.

To achieve this by mid February needs about 9,000 vaccinations a week.

I cannot see it anywhere near being achieved in Tendring.

We need a mass vaccination centre within the Clacton/Frinton area now.

P Price

Clacton