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Make mask wearing mandatory in college & secondary school classrooms.

Submitted on Tuesday 22nd September 2020

Rejected on Wednesday 30th September 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make mask wearing mandatory in college & secondary school classrooms.

Petition Details

Ensure lower transmission of the Covid-19 virus by focusing on 15 - 21 age group, who mix outside college & school. Make mask wearing mandatory, in classrooms, as well as, in communal areas, within schools & colleges, where rooms are small, hold a high number of students & have no social distancing.

Additional Information

To ensure the safety and protect the health of staff & students, who fall into high risk groups, or who are also carers shielding vulnerable relatives, that will suffer greater illness, due to underlying conditions.


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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 which calls for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/330227

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

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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: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

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