The CECC say you can go out, as long as it’s negative.
As far as I know, they also haven’t said whether you need to upload the results to anyone (ie. CECC themselves, the police) as evidentiary proof.
You don’t.
Personal experience.
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Watching NHK. Lots of foreigners already in Asakusa!
Special report: full flights from Taiwan.
My Japanese pal says the invasion of tourists from Japan in Taiwan will start on the 13, LOL. Will definitely hop on the MRT and check out Yongkang street that day. Shop owners will be beyond ecstatic if so.
The airlines are rejoicing:
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Checking out Yongkang Street? This event may require forumosa’s resident expert on the neighbourhood, the inimitable @tango42 , to visit and report back. Then we’ll really know if it’s still “cool” or not. 
Guy
Well the advertising is working but Japanese or anyone looking for the world’s coolest street are going to be in for a huge shock.
Well the retirement age tourists might get a firecracker level bang out of it. Daytime only, little to nothing after dark.
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Can you ask where the Japanese girls will be invading?
The Asian tourists do seem to love it.
Yongkang street!!!
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I mean after they realize that Yongkang Jia sucks and they’re looking for fun after dark
Triangle.
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As of today—October 13, 2022—quarantine on arrival in Taiwan is no more.
So what has replaced it? Focus Taiwan is here to help:
People arriving in Taiwan from Thursday will need to follow the “0+7” disease prevention plan, under which arriving travelers are only required to undergo a seven-day “self-initiated epidemic prevention” period.
Q: What is the “self-initiated epidemic prevention” period?
A: During the seven-day period, individuals can stay in a hotel or at home, as long as they follow the “one-person-per-room” rule (staying in an individual room with its own separate bathroom) and avoid contact with other people in the same residence.
People who travel together can spend the period in the same living space together. To avoid crowdedness in a hotel room, the government suggests that a maximum of two people in a room is ideal.
Upon arrival, each traveler will be given four free rapid test kits, with the first one to be used on the day of the arrival, or the following day, which is the first day of the seven-day “self-initiated epidemic prevention” period.
Arrivals must follow self-initiated epidemic prevention protocols for seven full days of the week. For example, if an individual arrived at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, their self-initiated epidemic prevention period would not end until after midnight on Wednesday the following week. [Put otherwise: Day of Arrival is still counted as Day Zero, with Day One starting the following day]
Q: Can I go out during the seven days?
A: Yes. Individuals can go to work or school and can take public transport, as long as they have a negative rapid test result within two days, show no symptoms, and follow social distancing rules.
Face masks are required outside one’s home or hotel room and can only be taken off for eating food and drinking. When dining out, individuals can have a meal by themselves or with certain people for private or work purposes, but not with strangers.
Except for emergencies, individuals are not allowed to go to the hospital for visits, nonessential medical procedures, or examinations. They should avoid contact with adults aged 65 and above, children aged 6 and under, and people whose immune system is weakened or impaired. They are also advised against visiting a care facility.
Q: What if I test positive for COVID-19 during the seven days?
A: People who have a positive rapid test result and need to go to a hospital can only do so on foot, use their own vehicle, take a designated COVID-19 taxi, or be driven by a family member or friend.
Those confirmed to have COVID-19 will begin seven-day self-isolation, followed by seven days of “self-initiated epidemic prevention.”
Q: Are there other rules I may need to know?
A: Yes. There are extra rules for visitors to Taiwan in tour groups, foreign students, and migrant workers.
● Group tourists:
Group tourists can share a room with their travel partners, but they cannot change rooms and share with other tour group members during their stay in Taiwan.
They can go outside and dine alone but cannot sit with people they do not know, as long as they have taken a rapid test within two days and returned a negative result.
● Foreign students:
Foreign students may attend classes physically during the seven-day self-initiated epidemic prevention period as long as they provide their schools with a negative rapid test taken within two days.
Inbound students can stay with family members, in hotels, self-rental units, and school dormitories so long as these locations have independent bedrooms and bathrooms.
Upon arrival in Taiwan, students who do not display COVID-19 symptoms may take public transportation or be picked up by friends, family, or their schools, while those displaying symptoms will ride in vehicles arranged by their schools.
Students who stay in a dormitory will have to follow the school’s arrangements when they experience COVID-19 symptoms or test positive for the disease.
● Migrant workers:
Employers or labor brokers of arriving migrant workers must register proof that the worker is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and where they will stay during the epidemic prevention period.
After entering Taiwan, the employer or labor broker must arrange for the transportation of the migrant worker to the individual’s self-health monitoring accommodation.
The workers can spend the seven days in a quarantine hotel, dormitory, or employer residence where the conditions must meet the principle of one person per room with a private bathroom.
The workers should test themselves with the four free rapid test kits on the day of arrival (day 0), and the third, fifth, and seventh days of the “self-initiated epidemic prevention” period.
Employers or labor brokers should upload the results to the Ministry of Labor’s website.
Manual laborers employed in the manufacturing, construction, agriculture, and fisheries sectors can go to work if they show no symptoms and provide a negative rapid test taken within two days.
However, some domestic helpers and caregivers will not be able to do so if their work involves contact with seniors, young children, or people who are immunocompromised. They are still free to go out during the seven days.
● For further questions or assistance while in Taiwan: call 1922 for the Centers for Disease Control, 119 for emergency services, 110 for police, and 1955 – the Ministry of Labor’s hotline.
Source: https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202210130006
Guy
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I think something’s lost in translation here. When dining out, you dine with strangers. But according to this, you CAN dine out but not with strangers? So does dine out mean dining outdoors like in a park? Or maybe dining with strangers means sharing a table with strangers?
Of course, all of this is under the honor system, and I’m sure many of the new international arrivals don’t give a flying f about it.
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very much doubt those instructions will be followed by most.
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50% + 1?
I don’t have stats, and I don’t know how one could know this. 
Guy
I think safe to say not followed in their entirety by most.
It started today, so how do you know?
Guy
How would you “follow” something that makes so little sense in the first place? You couldn’t follow it even if you wanted to.
And in any case, anyone who actually wastes precious minutes of their life reading and attempting to comprehend that steaming pile of horseshit has far too much time on their hands.
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TBH my dear, it is time we move on. I do believe the gov and the CECC are the first to know no one will give a flying damn about the guidelines. They are not naive at the end, they are politicians. They just want to save face. Good to me, good to them, good to the country.
If they wanted real compliance, then a system like HK to check for health codes in the self management period had to be implemented. During the +3 period in HK you are given a yellow code, can’t do shit basically, it’s a masked quarantine.
Times are ripe, almost spoiled.
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It’s unfortunate that the virus circulating neither reads forumosa nor heads calls such as yours. The virus continues, as we are seeing now in Taiwan, to do its thing even after such announcements.
Guy
On the flipside, the virus doesn’t give much of a toss about the CECC’s dictates and silly measures either, such as spraying foliage, plastic barriers, and outdoor masks, and it still persists in transmitting itself even when people are eating, at home, or taking a trip back from the airport with their family and friends.
It’s almost as though evolution continues unabated, isn’t it? I’m sure I’ve said that before. (At least a year ago. 
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