General penalties upon conviction under the current version of Act 342 already provide imprisonment of up to two years, a fine, or both for a first offence; as well as imprisonment not exceeding five years, a fine, or both for a second or subsequent offence.
He had argued that the decision was made to prevent people and places of infections from being stigmatised and thus cause panic.
Currently, the country does an average of 80,000 tests daily with a positivity rate above 7%.