Submitted on Thursday 12th March 2020
Rejected on Thursday 19th March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ban travel from mainland Europe to protect our citizens and the NHS.
US President Donald Trump has recently cancelled all travel from 26 countries in the Schengen area of Europe, and the United Kingdom should do the same in order to slow the increase in cases of coronavirus (COVID-19). This will lessen the strain on the NHS and reduce the number of casualties.
So far, the government has taken a minimalistic and reactive approach to combating the SARS-coronavirus-2 outbreak. The phases contain, delay, research, and mitigate, feel like an inevitability. Rather than seriously try to stop the progression into the next phase, the government spends most of it's energy planning for it. Stricter travel restrictions should have been implemented weeks ago, now it is just a case of damage control. But with proactive action, there is still a chance to save lives.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300932
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public
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