Cancel all public gatherings to stop the Coronavirus

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

The U.K. Government needs to cancel all public gatherings because so far only one measure has been effective against the coronavirus: extreme social distancing.

Because the United Kingdom has been extremely sluggish in testing patients for the coronavirus, the official tally likely represents a fraction of the real caseload. But even if we take this number at face value, it suggests that we should prepare to have up to 10 times as many cases a week from today, and up to 100 times as many cases two weeks from today. Imposing social distancing will level off the number of new cases and increase the number of healed patients, compared to newly infected.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign these petition calling for the same action:

Ban large public gatherings in the UK until the coronavirus has been contained
Implement UK lockdown for preventing spread of COVID19

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

Timeline

13 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
16 Mar 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17

Status Rejected

Rejected 16 Mar 2020

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