Rejected petition Cancel all public gatherings to stop the Coronavirus

The U.K. Government needs to cancel all public gatherings because so far only one measure has been effective against the coronavirus: extreme social distancing.

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Because the United Kingdom has been extremely sluggish in testing patients for the coronavirus, the official tally likely represents a fraction of the real caseload. But even if we take this number at face value, it suggests that we should prepare to have up to 10 times as many cases a week from today, and up to 100 times as many cases two weeks from today. Imposing social distancing will level off the number of new cases and increase the number of healed patients, compared to newly infected.

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign these petition calling for the same action:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300885
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301397

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

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

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

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Date submitted 13 March 2020
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