Submitted on Wednesday 22nd April 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 20th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Close UK borders to international travellers with immediate effect
Ban travel from outside the UK to airports, sea ports and the channel tunnel unless by critical staff or goods required to respond to the threat of COVID-19.
To prevent the spread of the virus. UK citizens are complying with restrictions and the progress being made is threatened by the ability of people still being able to buy tickets to travel to the UK. As of today, 22/04/2020 it was still possible to buy tickets to travel to London Heathrow from New York as one example.
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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.
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/309332
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