Gov can only report a Covid death when Covid is the primary cause of death.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Covid can only be recorded as the cause of death when no other underlying causes are present

The Government must accurately report Covid deaths, the current massive economic damage is not justified.If the government simply calls every death within 28 days of a positive test a covid death.We can the establish whether all these lockdown measures can be unwound and life can go back to normal.

Why it was rejected

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

Publish how many people have died solely from Covid-19

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

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

The Government has also created an online service to help you find out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

Timeline

13 Oct 2020	Petition opened for signatures
20 Oct 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Oct 2020

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