The UK government announced on Tuesday that hotel quarantine for travellers arriving in England will be abandoned. Under restrictions introduced to slow the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, all travellers arriving in the UK from the 11 African countries currently on the UK’s travel “red list” have been required to spend 11 nights in a quarantine hotel at a cost of £2,285 ($3,029) for solo travellers. But Health Secretary Sajid Javid said that the spread of Omicron in the UK and the world means the red list is “now less effective in slowing the incursion of Omicron from abroad.” He told the House of Commons: “I can announce today that whilst we’ll maintain our temporary testing measures for international travel, we will be removing all 11 countries from the travel red list effective from 4 a.m. tomorrow.” Responding to a question about the people already in hotel quarantine, Javid …