Donate spare COVID-19 vaccines to India.

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

The UK Government should donate spare COVID-19 vaccines to India to help speed up India's vaccination programme as it experiences a horrendous surge in COVID-19 infections and tries to avert the collapse of its healthcare system.

Having exported millions of COVID-19 vaccines to the UK, India can claim some responsibility for the success of the UK's vaccination programme so far. Now India needs help from the UK; vaccine nationalism will not help the world recover from the pandemic, and the UK is not safe while COVID-19 is rampant elsewhere. Speeding up India's vaccination programme would also allow India to resume its crucial role of manufacturing and vaccines to low-income countries without a vaccine manufacturing base.

Why it was rejected

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

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Increase support for India in the Covid Crisis: Increase support for India in the Covid Crisis

Send excess equipment to countries in humanitarian covid crisis: Send excess equipment to countries in humanitarian covid crisis

Once priority groups in the UK are vaccinated redirect Covid-19 vaccines abroad: Once priority groups in the UK are vaccinated redirect Covid-19 vaccines abroad

You may be interested to know that on 25 April the Government announced that it was sending medical equipment to India to support the country in its fight against COVID-19: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-sends-life-saving-medical-equipment-to-india

Timeline

24 Apr 2021	Petition opened for signatures
29 Apr 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 29 Apr 2021

Follow this petition