Submitted on Thursday 29th December 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 3rd January 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)
Introduce mandatory Covid tests for anyone travelling from China
Require anyone travelling from China to have a negative Covid test before they can enter the UK. This includes anyone who has left China in the previous two weeks and is travelling to the UK from anywhere in the world.
The removal of total lockdowns by China without any booster programme or vaccination strategy will produce a surge in infections. This in turn could produce new and possibly more deadly variants. Please refer to recent article in The Economist.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Since you started your petition the Government has announced that passengers arriving from China to England will need to show a negative COVID-19 pre-departure test taken no more than 2 days prior to departure.
In addition, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is launching surveillance which will see a sample of passengers arriving in England from mainland China tested for COVID-19 at the point of their arrival.
You can find out more about these measures here: www.gov.uk/government/news/precautionary-and-temporary-measures-introduced-to-improve-covid-surveillance-from-china
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