Mangala Samaraweera

Mangala Samaraweera  link (Politician, COVID-19/Premature death)
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Born	21 April 1956 Sri Lanka
Died	24 August 2021 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nationality	Sri Lanka
Party	United National Party
The finance minister of Sri Lanka until just before COVID. He later died of the disease despite being vaccinated.

Mangala Samaraweera was the first openly gay Sri Lankan politician. He held many high ministerial roles including; finance, media and foreign affairs.

He died of COVID in August 2021 despite having had the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.