Rejected petition Mandatory mask-wearing for indoors and outdoors in England

Make wearing a mask (surgical or N95 masks) mandatory in outdoors and indoors to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Normal face coverings (sponge masks) is not accepted as it has no literal effects to protect from the small particles of COVID-19. Examples who have this law, Hong Kong, Taiwan.

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This law is to drastically reduce the cases of COVID-19 spreading in major and minor cities, especially in densely populated areas like London and Manchester. Scotland has done the same and has a huge positive effect in stopping the spread of COVID-19. In other countries, like South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and New Zealand, the majority of transmissions of COVID-19 are done through no masks activities, by putting this law in effect can significantly reduce the chance of spreading COVID-19.

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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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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/554917

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 find 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 1 November 2020
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