A Stormont Executive meeting in March 2020 was adjourned for 15 minutes at one stage, when exchanges became heated.
There was uncertainty and fear among Stormont ministers as Covid-19 arrived in Northern Ireland in March 2020.
Ministers had been in post for just weeks after a three-year political collapse when the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in Northern Ireland in late February 2020. Several ministers pressed for more testing, including then finance minister Conor Murphy advocating it is better to test more, while the Health Minister pointed to resources.
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