Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald feels ‘lucky to have recovered from coronavirus’

The party president asked to be tested after feeling ill - and received a positive diagnosis for Covid-19 after being tested on March 28.

She experienced weeks of being “very unwell”, adding she had a setback to her recovery when she developed pleurisy.

This morning she told BBC Radio Ulster’s Talkback programme: “I feel very well, I feel strong and I feel extremely, extremely lucky.”

She said it was a horrible virus and nobody wanted to catch it.

She added: “It is like your whole system has been invaded, and it is upsetting that it had come into the house and had come under my roof.”

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