Keep Gyms open during November lockdown

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Reopen the Gyms for the November lockdown by continuing with safe social distancing measures, having capacity on amount of visitors allowed within the gyms and, enforce all gyms to make visitors book sessions before visiting. These measures have been successful and have kept gyms COVID-19 free.

Parliament understand how VITAL gyms are for people's mental and physical health and know that the healthier people are the less risk of COVID they have. Statistically gyms have had 22million visits and have had 78 cases and for every 100,000 people the infection rate is 0.34 which is 4.66 lower than pubs. Gyms are major parts of peoples lives and should be seen as ESSENTIAL in the eyes of the government. With enough signatures to raise awareness gyms hopefully will stay open as they should.

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 some of these petitions:

Keep gyms and leisure facilities open during any lockdown: Keep gyms and leisure facilities open during any lockdown

Prevent gyms closing due to a spike in Covid 19 cases: Prevent gyms closing due to a spike in Covid 19 cases

The Committee will be holding a debate on Covid-19 restrictions on gyms and sport on Monday 23 November. You will be able to watch the debate on Parliament TV at 4.30pm: https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Commons

Timeline

31 Oct 2020	Petition opened for signatures
6 Nov 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 6 Nov 2020

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