5 STORIES COMING UP TODAY

HOTEL QUARANTINE

Passengers arriving in England from high-risk coronavirus hotspots look set to be made to quarantine in hotels to limit the spread of variants. Boris Johnson discussed the plans – designed to ensure people follow self-isolation rules – at a meeting with senior ministers.

‘OPEN SCHOOLS’

Schools should be reopened after the February half-term break in areas where infection rates are low, Conservative

MPs have urged. The Government was also told to treat the closures as a national emergency given the mental health ‘timebomb’ being created by the pandemic.

VACCINE THREAT

The UK will work with the European Union to ensure there is no disruption to the supply of coronavirus vaccines, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. He said vaccine protectionism ‘was not the right approach’, following the EU’s proposal to impose tight controls on exports.

CLIMATE FEAR

More than four-fifths of people in the UK think climate change is a global emergency, the highest level of concern across 50 countries in a worldwide poll.

SHOW DELAYED

The Chelsea Flower Show has been postponed to September for the first time in its history.