Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Naomi Long says doctors have told her she was probably infected with coronavirus earlier this year and suffered long with Covid-19 in the months that followed.
The Alliance Party leader said she missed the party's conference in March because she was taken to hospital for tests after experiencing chest pains and a high temperature.
A CT scan revealed a partially collapsed lung, which she told BBC Northern Ireland's The View programme had made her "quite ill" for two weeks.
She said: "What did start to worry me was the lag after that, because for the next three to four months I suffered from exhaustion, I found it difficult to breathe and it was really quite challenging to get the full recovery." "When I