Canberra, March 1 (TIWN) The Australian government has established a "myth-busting unit" to address coronavirus vaccine misinformation, a Minister revealed on Monday.

Greg Hunt, the Minister for Health, revealed that the unit, a joint endeavour between the Departments of Health and Home Affairs, was “quietly” established in 2020 amid concerns over false vaccine information spreading rapidly on social media, Xinhua news agency reported.  “Some of these anti-vaxxers are peddling, frankly, false and clearly irresponsible views,” Hunt said.  “We don’t want to give too much air to some of the silliest ideas but we do want to provide public reassurance (we are) combating the misinformation on those ideas which would in any way falsely have some impact on public confidence.”