Rejected petition We want the wearing of face masks/ covers to be made compulsory outside

A lot of people are not adhering to the present two metre rule when out in public, putting people’s lives at risk from infection from Covid 19.
Therefore by making face masks/ coverings compulsory will result in reducing cross infection. This should be enforceable by law.

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I live in a local Herefordshire town and every time I go out I notice people are not adhereing to the two metre rule. Both myself and my friends have been verbally abused and coughed at when asking people
To move away.
By making face coverings compulsory will reduce infection when in close contact.

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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 some of these petitions:

Make it mandatory to wear a face mask in public during Covid-19 Pandemic: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304397

Supply and mandate the use of face masks and gloves: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/308209

Supply surgical masks to be used by the general public: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306950

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

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

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 19 May 2020
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