Submitted on Wednesday 6th May 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 20th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Close the UK borders and let’s stop importing Covid-19 cases into the UK!
New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Belgium and other countries that have had success eliminating cases of Covid-19 shut their borders to prevent international travel into the countries. They already had cases of Covid-19 and since closing the borders, have since managed to drive DOWN cases.
I personally was due to move to Australia for work, but was prevented from doing so because of the border closures there. I would rather we take ACTION on how we are managing the spread of Coronavirus and containing cases vs. Leaving our borders open and not tackling the imported cases head on. We are not able to test at airports so how can we continue to let travellers in!!
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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 these petitions calling for the same action.
Close down all UK airports & seaports to prevent further spreading of Covid-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300932
Close the Borders of the United Kingdom to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309332
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