and coming up, we'll be speaking to janicejohnston, a mother of 4—macro, who was wrongly diagnosed withood cancer and unnecessarily underwent chemotheraphy for 18 months. hello, good morning. mps are demanding clarity from the government on when schools in england willfully reopen — after health secretary matt hancock refused to guarantee that it would happen before easter. the chair of the education select committee, robert halfon, has asked for a plan to be laid out in the commons, saying that "the engine of government" needs to work towards reopening. meanwhile, senior ministers are preparing to discuss whether to require travellers arriving in the uk to pay to quarantine in a hotel. that's an idea prompted by the new brazil and south african variants, of which there are currently 86 known cases in the uk. scientists fear that vaccines may work less well against them. in the uk, the latest figures show that more than 6.3 million people have had a first vaccine dose, and on saturday, a daily record of 491,970 were injected. the figures suggest that the programme is on course to meet t