Submitted on Thursday 26th November 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 2nd December 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Close schools until after Christmas 2020
To close all schools throughout the UK until Jan 2021
Covid19 is spreading fast in schools, the cases of coronavirus went up enormously from September 2020. The virus needs to be contained, this won’t happen whilst schools are open. These children who have the virus are going home to sometimes elderly and vulnerable parents/Grandparents.
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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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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550846
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 find 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: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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