is essentially a case of having a bunch of forms already printed by one Ministry and the other Ministry overriding the wording. The Ministry of Health printed the documents and the Ministry of Tourism now wants them to say "stay in the corridor", not your hotel. The next batch of forms should have the correction.
This goes back to the "Phase 1" idea of staying at your hotel until your results came back. That is why it asks you to stay at your hotel. Everyone was being tested and everyone needed to sign and obey it and stay at their hotel until the results came back.
Now that pre-testing is being used for high risk areas only, this makes the current wording moot. If you are of the select few who still get tested here, staying at your hotel would be in order but you would be required to sign much more explicit documents explaining your duties until you get your results back.
As I mentioned in the "No in and out" thread, you are required to stay in zone, meaning to stay in the corridor. Places that are being certified to stay have no restaurants and you have to eat so there had to be some explanation to the discrepancy.
So in this case you can regard the "stay at hotel" order to mean a "stay in zone" order. It is not a case of the "message is to encourage noobs and help reduce the desire to roam the corridor" - it is simply too many forms printed but still being used.
And you should never lie to any government agency in any country, nor pick and choose which rules you will obey. Governments don't like that. A tourist just after the borders opened was required to wait for his results. His came back positive and when they contacted him at the hotel, he was out jogging on the beach. The police along with health workers came and got him, fined and deported him.
This is a pandemic so please follow all the sanitizing, social distancing and mask wearing guidelines. We want you to have a great time. But we also don't want any of our visitors to get infected nor do we....
