Submitted on Monday 28th December 2020
Rejected on Monday 4th January 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Close schools, colleges and universities
Reclose schools and colleges due to increase in COVID-19 cases and the new variant. We are seeing cases of students and teachers catching the virus since schools have reopened and a new variant is rapidly increasing across London and the East/South East of England
Today 41,385 people tested positive for covid-19 and a further 357 people have died. Millions of people are under a tier 4 lockdown but keeping schools and colleges open won't bring the cases down enough for the tier system lockdowns to be effective. Closing schools and colleges for a minimum of 4 weeks will not only help to reduce the numbers but also protect those that are vulnerable. The new variant is rapidly spreading and I fear keeping the schools open will spread it even faster
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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 some of these petitions:
Reclose schools and colleges due to increase in COVID-19 cases: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550846
Require university campuses to close to stop the spread of COVID-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/552512
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