Submitted on Thursday 25th March 2021
Rejected on Friday 7th May 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Pause vaccine rollout in the UK for healthy, low risk people.
Vaccines are our biggest hope for overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic but vaccinating the younger, healthy section of the population now is stopping other countries ability to vaccinate their most at risk. Supply is limited & vaccinating all those most at risk worldwide should be the priority.
This inequitable distribution is not just a moral issues, it's also a mistake economically & epidemiologically. More transmission worldwide means more variants, with an increased risk of variants being resistant to vaccines. People will keep dying, travel & trade will not recover.
We need to pause rollout except for those in the top 9 groups identified by the Joint Committee on Vaccination & Immunisation (JCVI) until global supply increases & the pandemic is under control globally.
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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 like to sign the two petitions we currently have open on the same topic:
Once priority groups in the UK are vaccinated redirect Covid-19 vaccines abroad
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/572802
Donate surplus Covid-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/565462
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