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Prioritise professional taxi drivers operators for vaccination

Submitted on Monday 1st February 2021

Rejected on Monday 8th February 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Prioritise professional taxi drivers operators for vaccination

Petition Details

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show the number of deaths throughout country Their statistics provide the number of deaths with taxi drivers being one of the highest. From March to December 2020 it revealed that a shocking 209 male drivers lost their lives due to the coronavirus.

Additional Information

The statistics show that male taxi drivers are within the top ten most vulnerable occupations and the highest male deaths rates. we are shocked and devastated to hear these statistics and strongly support the appeal toward taxi drivers being prioritised for vaccines. We also await further government advice on finance packages available to cabbies as to date there has been very insufficient support available


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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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