Submitted on Saturday 9th January 2021
Rejected on Monday 25th January 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Vaccinate high-risk groups across the globe before low-risk groups in the UK.
We have a moral duty to protect the vulnerable.
We live in an interconnected world. The British population will not be safe from COVID-19 until all countries are safe.
The government should work to distribute vaccines to high-risk groups in every country ahead of low-risk groups in the UK.
We have bought enough doses to vaccinate our entire population several times over. Despite our COVAX donations, millions of people in the world's poorest countries wont be vaccinated until 2021.
According to the World Bank, failure to quickly control COVID-19 overseas will hamper the global economic recovery, and increase the chances of new strains developing that could affect the UK.
Vaccine nationalism will prolong the pandemic for all. Our current approach is immoral and self-defeating.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept your petition because the UK Government aren't responsible for the issue you raise. The UK Government cannot legislate for who receives vaccines in other countries.
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Increase funding to make Covid-19 vaccines available to developing countries: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550900
Donate surplus Covid-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/565462
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