Rejected petition Full National Lockdown until most population vaccinated, complete school closure

Rejected on 11 January 2021

Focus more on vaccinating the population rather keeping schools open to key workers and vulnerable children and risking their and teaching staff lives. This will also protect the NHS being overwhelmed with rising number of cases.

I work at a school with 10 Autistic children in class that are going to be coming in next week onwards. I have old vulnerable grandparents at home and my 2 children, with 1 having underlying health condition. I do not want to risk their lives. Being a key worker I am obliged to go into work risking mine and their lives.
I request a complete closure of schools untill we are vaccinated.

Why was this petition rejected?

We can't publish petitions when the request is something that's already happening or something that has been announced since you started your petition.

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Since you started your petition the Government has announced a new national lockdown, and said that future changes to restrictions will depend on the rollout of the vaccine programme: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-address-to-the-nation-4-january-2021

You can read the current lockdown rules here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home

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