Submitted on Thursday 30th April 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 20th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Enforce quarantine for people entering the UK during COVID-19 crisis.
Please use empty airport hotels to house people entering the UK via air or sea. People should remain in quarantine for 14 days and test negative for COVID-19 before returning to the community. This should apply to UK citizens and people from other countries.
Australia and New Zealand are islands with sea and air borders only, just like the UK. They enforced quarantine for people entering the country as soon as they brought in lockdown measures. This meant they could focus on limiting community transmission without worrying about the virus continuing to enter the territory. They have had few deaths compared to the UK. As they UK stands at 26,000 deaths, Australia has 90 deaths.
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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 these petitions calling for the same action.
Enforce a 14 day quarantine on all new arrivals to the UK: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312500
Start screening every person who enters UK for Coronavirus: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301188
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/
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.
Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/
Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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