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Test people arriving in the UK for COVID-19 and quarantine if necessary.

Submitted on Tuesday 24th March 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Test people arriving in the UK for COVID-19 and quarantine if necessary.

Petition Details

Test all people arriving in the UK, Including crew and transit passengers.
Requisition suitable hotels, at air and sea ports, to allow for the quarantine of anyone found to be infected.

Additional Information

There's a report today (24/03/2020) of an infection in Guangzhou, China resulting from someone returning from Turkey.
Given the call, by the FCO, for up to 1 million people to return to the UK it's vital to prevent similar things happening here.


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This petition was rejected

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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301188

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/coronavirus

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