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He left his hotel room for a brief moment, not realizing it would be a costly mistake.
Recently, a Filipino migrant worker was fined NT $ 100,000 (S $ 4,700) for violating quarantine regulations in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The man, who is in his 20s, left his hotel room for about 8 seconds on November 19 to leave something on the door of a friend who was in quarantine on the same floor, the Central News Agency (CNA) reported. .
At the time, he was serving a mandatory 14-day quarantine after arriving in Taiwan on November 13.
According to EBC news, regulations in the country dictated that quarantined people could not leave their rooms even for a short period of time.
The man may have escaped from his room for just a few seconds, but his actions were caught by a surveillance camera at the hotel and then reported by hotel staff to authorities, the Kaohsiung health department said.
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A similar incident occurred on November 28, when another quarantined migrant worker was fined NT $ 100,000 after she was caught leaving her hotel room to get hot water to buy instant noodles.
Kaohsiung authorities have asked hotel managers to closely monitor guests who are in quarantine.
There are currently less than a thousand cases of Covid-19 in Taiwan due to early intervention and effective measures. However, the country has seen a recent increase in imported Covid-19 cases, so authorities are keeping a close eye on those in quarantine.
On December 6, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) in Taiwan announced a total of 22 imported cases of Covid-19, 20 from Indonesia and two from the Philippines, Taiwan News reported.
A week earlier, the Taiwanese government announced that it would impose restrictions on the number of Indonesian workers entering the country following an increase in imported Covid-19 cases.
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