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Provide all workers dealing with the public PPE to be protected from COVID-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307866

Protect essential workers from contracting and spreading Covid-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306387

Supply PPE to all Health and Social Care workers including community carers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/314229


Provide adequate PPE equipment for medical professionals working with COVID-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304243

Provide urgent support and PPE to carers during coronavirus crisis: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312960

Suitable equipment to protect our front-line police officers from COVID-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310079

Provide Protective Personal Equipment PPE to all Transports Workers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/317297

Give All Schools Protective Equipment to help protect staff from the Coronavirus: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306347

Fund and provide safety clothing for the supermarket staff on the frontline: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305874

Ensure all prison workers are issued protective gear during this pandemic: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310683

COVID-19: Commandeer production of British-made PPE for frontline staff: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312024



Set up nationalised manufacturing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): petition.parliament.uk/petitions/317513

Make stockpiling PPE law incase of future pandemics: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/314100

### Further information

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/


Find out the latest updates from Parliament on the COVID-19 outbreak, including ways that you can get involved: www.parliament.uk/business/news/covid-19/

Are you an academic or researcher? Find out how you can help Parliament scrutinise the Government’s response to coronavirus: www.parliament.uk/covid19-researcher-engagement


### What the Petitions Committee is doing


You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/