This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Stop binning Covid vaccines. It's both immoral & shooting ourselves in the foot!
The UK government bought lots of vaccines, and got them into the arms of most of us. We got a life back; Fab!
The current policy seems to be, if we can't use it and it's getting out of date; bin it.
Give them instead to those who don't have the means to get vaccines.
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Because we weren't sure which jabs would work & be ready in time, we bought way more than we needed, maybe as much as 200 million for 2022
1. The more unvaccinated people there are on the planet, the more certain a new variant that resist our vaccines will emerge
2. Many countries in the world can't get vaccines because we (rich countries) pushed the price up & have most of the stock
3. Binning vaccines under these circumstances is deeply immoral
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Increase donations of and funding for COVID 19 vaccines to developing countries: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/596403
Donate all surplus Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/594508
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