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‘All options’ open to boost vaccine uptake
Speaking to the BBC, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has claimed he is willing to look at ‘all options’ to boost England's vaccination levels, including compulsory immunisation.
Hancock said that he did not want to ‘reach the point’ of imposing jabs, but would ‘rule nothing out’, following a report that claimed almost 40,000 British parents had joined an online group calling for children to be left unimmunised against potentially fatal diseases such as tetanus.
According to Unicef, more than half a million children in the UK were unvaccinated against measles from 2010 to 2017.
Hancock said: "Failure to vaccinate when there isn't a good reason is wrong. These people who campaign against vaccinations are campaigning against science - the science is settled. I don't want to have to reach the point of compulsory vaccination, and I don't think we are near there, but I will rule nothing out."
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