Rejected petition School closure in line with current proposed lock down measures

It is clear to anybody reviewing the data given by the government and ons data in senior schools the virus is spreading rapidly with a large amount of students being asymptotic. The neu have already called for this and sage scientists have even said without school closures lockdown will drag

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Saving lives of vulnerable people is of the upmost importance. School children mixing and passing this virus on and taking it home is going to be catastrophic. Restaurants can be made Covid safe and they are being made to shut ,but in schools there are 30 plus children from different households mixing with no social distancing or face mask . You even have whole year groups of hundreds mixing and unknowingly passing it to hundreds of house holds at once

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Date submitted 1 November 2020
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