Rejected petition Prioritise essential supermarket key worker staff for COVID-19 vaccination

Rejected on 8 January 2021

Advice from the JCVI on the priority groups for a Covid-19 vaccine does not include supermarket retail staff. This petition calls for these workers, who have worked at the frontline of this pandemic, to be kept safe by being put on the priority list (when such a list is adopted by the Government).

This should happen to:
* protect more individuals who have worked on the “frontline” of this crisis
* supermarkets are one of the highest places COVID-19 is likely to be transmissible, due to mixing of households in the shop itself
* ensures staff can continue to work without the threat of the virus
* reduced chance of virus transmission in the working environment
* staff anxiety and stress-levels reduce due to protection from virus

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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/567426

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