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Lockdown will fail unless you close the schools

Submitted on Saturday 31st October 2020

Rejected on Thursday 5th November 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Lockdown will fail unless you close the schools

Petition Details

Cases started to raise as soon as students went back, especially in University, College and High-school students. Please don't wait for the death of young people to rise before you do something about it.

Additional Information

Office for National Statistics tweeted the information below
There has been growth in the number of infections in all age groups over the past two weeks
▪️ Older teenagers and young adults continue to have the highest current rates.
▪️ Rates also appear to be steeply increasing among secondary school children


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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.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550846
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/552512

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