Coronavirus: Mary Lou McDonald describes 'distressing' 16-day wait for test results

"I feel very lucky to have come through the whole thing," she said.

Mary Lou McDonald has said waiting 16 days for her Covid- 19 test results was "distressing" leaving her "operating in the dark" while very ill.

An asthma sufferer, the Sinn Féin president, had been tested on March 28 after showing signs of a "head cold", and became "incredibly ill" in the days after, waiting over two weeks for her result, by which time she had also contracted a viral pleurisy in her lung.