Petition · past parliament
Stop classifying Covid deaths as any death within 28 days of a positive test.
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
The Government's of the UK should stop classifying Covid deaths as any death within 28 days of a positive test. The only deaths that should be classified as a Covid death are those where the person has died as a result OF Covid, as confirmed by a medical practitioner.
The Government's of the UK should immediately stop classifying any death within 28 days of a positive test as a Covid death as this is falsely inflating Covid death data and wrongly influencing Government policy. It is also deeply distressing for relatives of the deceased to have their loved one classed as a Covid death when the true cause of death was something else.Cause of death should only be classified by a medical practitioner at the time of death.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 5 Jan 2021 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 14 Jan 2021 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
14 Jan 2021
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.