Tawfiq al-Yasiri ‑ an Iraqi military officer and politician ‑ died on 14 June 2020 in Al Diwaniyah, making him the first politician in Iraq to die from the COVID-19 pandemic..
He was a brigadier general in the events of 1991 in Iraq, and led opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime in the city of Al Diwaniyah, then fled to Saudi Arabia, where he stayed for several years in the Rafha camp. From there he went to London, where he was active among the opposition within the leadership of the Iraqi National Accord Movement led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. He later separated from it and returned to Baghdad after the occupation of Iraq in 2003 and formed a political organization called the "Iraqi National Democratic Coalition". He worked as a consultant in the first Ministry of the Interior after the fall of the regime.