Sindh minister Saeed Ghani recovers from coronavirus

E-Paper | March 09, 2026

Sindh education minister and a key member of the provincial cabinet Saeed Ghani has recovered from the new coronavirus, he announced on Twitter on Monday.

Ghani had tested positive for Covid-19 last Monday, prompting him to go into self-isolation.

The development had caused Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to get himself tested for the virus and order tests of all those members of his team who had been in contact with Ghani.

Taking to Twitter today, the minister said his Covid-19 test conducted today had come out negative.

"According to doctors, I have recovered fully. God willing, I will continue my work from where I had left," he said.

Ghani thanked his wellwishers for praying for him after his diagnosis. "I will try to continue fulfilling my responsibilities effectively in the future as well," he wrote.

The minister is part of the provincial task force on coronavirus constituted by the Sindh government last month. The province is currently under a lockdown to help stem the spread of the virus.

Sindh has so far recorded 535 cases of Covid-19 while 41 people have recovered from the disease.

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Sairbeen plus.

Mar 30, 2020 09:14pm

Alhamdolillah Saeed Bhai . You are a wonderful fellow. Keep serving Sindh.

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Dr Vikas Jamwal

Mar 30, 2020 09:15pm

Make his test report public, if it's true.

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Orakzai

Mar 30, 2020 09:20pm

Seems he was not affected from virus, he was just pretending to show off to people of Pakistan .

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Asfand

Mar 30, 2020 09:35pm

Welcome back

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Imran yousif

Mar 30, 2020 09:37pm

He should advise the public based on his experience. What worked for him?

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Justice First

Mar 30, 2020 09:52pm

Who can believe them that they are sincere with the nation as the VIPs of Sindh Government have utilized maximum number of corono virus kits on them including our minister who has utilized two,one for positive test and the other for negative test in 6 days.Could Sindh Government provide the list of people whom the Corona test has been conducted free of cost and analyse the break up.

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Sameer

Mar 30, 2020 10:10pm

@Justice First, I couldnt get my uncle tested! He suffered symptoms and had trouble breathing! The doctors were obviously ill equipped and therefore were reluctant in treating him. The said they dont have PCR kits and asked my uncle to go back home and return in case condition worsens. Luckily he recovered on his own.

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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad

Mar 30, 2020 10:17pm

Great news for him, his family, relatives, friends and associates.

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Haroon

Mar 30, 2020 10:22pm

This episode speaks volumes about the VIP culture, abuse of power, and total ignorance in Pakistan. Pakistan went into this pandemic with a severe shortage of testing kits. In countries like UK, where they are testing 10000 people on daily basis, they were only testing people showing symptoms until previous Friday. Even the PM there only got tested when he had symptoms. In Pakistan, Mr Ghani in spite of NOT showing any symptoms, gets himself tested, and them again to make sure he is clean. An utter waste of 2 kits which could have been saved for patients. As for ignorance, these early tests have low accuracy, and if he wanted to be sure, his test should have been repeated. The Lancet medical journal published a piece today about viral RNA load which mentions patients' medical condition deteriorating after their nasopharyngeal tests came negative. Pakistani politicians and elites will not learn unless this attacks wreaks havoc amongst them.

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Maria

Mar 30, 2020 10:41pm

Good to read Dawn

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Waheed Rehman, US Patriot

Mar 30, 2020 11:01pm

@Justice First, isn't it proper that medical personnel and people in charge of daily governance (government officials, police, etc.) be immediately diagnosed for COVID-19 when they show symptoms? These people put their lives on the line every day as their jobs require contact with many people all day. Please put aside your disdain for politicians at this time and feel grateful that it isn't you who is on the front lines facing immediate threat of an infection.

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Nazir Gilani

Mar 30, 2020 11:11pm

He was one of the lucky ones.

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Nazir Gilani

Mar 30, 2020 11:12pm

@Dr Vikas Jamwal ... Do you believe he had some other illness?

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Sab Se Pehle Pakistan

Mar 30, 2020 11:27pm

Now he can move freely and resume Mega Corruption with his PPP teammates.

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Saif Zulfiqar

Mar 30, 2020 11:45pm

@Dr Vikas Jamwal , Make yours doctorate certificate public first.

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Tzaman

Mar 31, 2020 12:38am

Good news Sir. Expect you to start your work for the pandemic at more vigorous scale. We have expectations from you, CM Murad, and Sindh Government.

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Ahmed Malik

Mar 31, 2020 12:42am

That was very quick.

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Alif

Mar 31, 2020 01:15am

Will any hospital test an ordinary man three times if he shows no symptoms of COVID-19.

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Haroon

Mar 31, 2020 01:36am

Someone should also inform Mr Ghani that hopefully his "doctor" told him about the poor accuracy of some of these PCR tests, which could be as low as 70%. With earlier tests, you have to repeat them to confirm the result. I would not be surprised if this minister is now on the lookout for the next flight which brings in antibody test kits that some friendly country might "donate" to Pakistan.

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Farhan

Mar 31, 2020 03:10am

It was all lies to begin with. The first two tests were bogus but the third one seems authentic. You can't even trust your test results and the kits and people who are testing it.

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M. Mushtaq Ahmed

Mar 31, 2020 03:30am

@Asfand, for what, they don’t do any thing for people.

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Abid Khan

Mar 31, 2020 03:47am

Alhumdulillah, It is nice to see his expedient recovery.

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Zak

Mar 31, 2020 04:51am

Stay home for good.