Keep Gyms and Leisure centres open during the new lock down.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Keep Gyms and Sports Centres open and ensure that they are operating within a covid safe and secure environment. People’s mental and physical health are vital and closing gyms and sports centres will do more harm than good. Exercise is a natural and effect. Anything that gets you moving can help.

Due to the current Covid guidelines, people who are “ obese “, tend to be at a high risk of the contracting covid. Closing the gyms and sports centres what are possibly safe and follow covid guidance will do more harm than good especially to peoples mental and physical health. Exercise is vital to people’s physical and mental aspects of life please can everyone support this petition as it’s vital to keep these open as its classed as an essential service to people within the UK

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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