This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Petition Prevent non-essential international travel for the rest of 2021
We have all worked so hard and are ready for the UK to move out of lockdown , but we also need to prevent more deaths and another lockdown.
We believe this means preventing all non-essential international travel for the rest of 2021, to prevent new Covid strains and variants from being imported.
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* By last summer we had almost suppressed the virus, but by autumn up to 80% of new cases were a variant from Spain
* Our vaccine programme is working much faster than other countries, but could be hindered by importing new variants
* As difficult as it is, we need a much clearer international picture before we let people travel freely again
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