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Bangkok (People’s Daily) - Two COVID-19 patients died in Malaysia on Tuesday, the country's health minister Adham Baba said.

The first was a 60-year-old pastor from Sarawak's Emmanuel Baptist Church and the second was a 34-year-old man who had attended the Sri Petaling religious gathering, the minister said at a press conference. He also confirmed 120 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing its total number of infections to 673.