Submitted on Saturday 24th April 2021
Rejected on Thursday 29th April 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Donate spare COVID-19 vaccines to India.
The UK Government should donate spare COVID-19 vaccines to India to help speed up India's vaccination programme as it experiences a horrendous surge in COVID-19 infections and tries to avert the collapse of its healthcare system.
Having exported millions of COVID-19 vaccines to the UK, India can claim some responsibility for the success of the UK's vaccination programme so far. Now India needs help from the UK; vaccine nationalism will not help the world recover from the pandemic, and the UK is not safe while COVID-19 is rampant elsewhere. Speeding up India's vaccination programme would also allow India to resume its crucial role of manufacturing and vaccines to low-income countries without a vaccine manufacturing base.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Increase support for India in the Covid Crisis: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/584152
Send excess equipment to countries in humanitarian covid crisis: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/584188
Once priority groups in the UK are vaccinated redirect Covid-19 vaccines abroad: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/572802
You may be interested to know that on 25 April the Government announced that it was sending medical equipment to India to support the country in its fight against COVID-19: www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-sends-life-saving-medical-equipment-to-india
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