Anti-vaxxer movement in UK is not growing, says health minister

LONDON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The anti-vaxxer movement in the
United Kingdom is not growing and an increasing number of people
want to have a vaccine against COVID-19, Health Secretary Matt
Hancock said on Wednesday.

"The good news is that it's not growing. We monitor this
very carefully and actually the number of people who want to
have the vaccine is increasing, and that's good because
obviously that's the right thing to do," he said on LBC radio.

Hancock was speaking shortly after an announcement that
Britain's medicines regulator had approved the Pfizer vaccine
and that vaccination would start next week.

"The regulators are fiercely independent, they would not
approve this if it wasn't safe," Hancock said.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge and Estelle Shirbon; Editing by
Kate Holton)