Justice Minister Naomi Lengthy has been affected by Covid, she revealed on social media.
On Thursday, Mrs Lengthy mentioned she's examined optimistic for the virus for 9 consecutive days and feels "fairly grim".
The Alliance Celebration chief apologised for the delay in replying to her constituents.
She mentioned: "For those who're making an attempt to succeed in me this week, apologies for the delay in replies: nonetheless testing optimistic for Covid and feeling fairly grim (9 days in). My employees are additionally unwell (although not with Covid, fortunately!) so we'll get again to you as quickly as we are able to."
It isn't the primary time Mrs Lengthy has had Covid. Two years in the past, she revealed medical doctors informed her she most likely had Covid in early 2020 and certain suffered from lengthy Covid, through which the signs of the virus final for much longer, within the months that adopted.
She missed her get together's convention that 12 months in consequence, earlier than later assessments revealed a partially collapsed lung.
Mrs Lengthy informed the BBC it had made her “fairly sick” for 2 weeks.
"For the subsequent three to 4 months I suffered from exhaustion, I discovered it troublesome to breathe and it was actually fairly difficult to get the complete restoration," she mentioned.
“What did begin to fear me was the lag after that, as a result of for the subsequent three to 4 months I suffered from exhaustion, I discovered it troublesome to breathe and it was actually fairly difficult to get the complete restoration,” she mentioned.
“Once I was referred again to the clinic, when it comes to having my lungs checked and all of the follow-up on that, it was there that they mentioned it had most likely been a type of Covid that I had and that that will clarify the very lengthy restoration time which was constant symptomatically with different individuals who had had lengthy Covid, because it’s referred to," she mentioned.
“I used to be not conscious that I had been uncovered. I wasn’t conscious that I had it and I used to be by no means examined for it on the time. However they’re fairly certain given the signs that that’s what it may need been.”