Sindh minister Saeed Ghani recovers from coronavirus
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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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Mar 30, 2020 09:14pm
Alhamdolillah Saeed Bhai . You are a wonderful fellow. Keep serving Sindh.
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Mar 30, 2020 09:15pm
Make his test report public, if it's true.
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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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Mar 30, 2020 09:35pm
Welcome back
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Mar 30, 2020 09:37pm
He should advise the public based on his experience. What worked for him?
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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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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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Mar 30, 2020 10:17pm
Great news for him, his family, relatives, friends and associates.
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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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Mar 30, 2020 10:41pm
Good to read Dawn
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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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Mar 30, 2020 11:11pm
He was one of the lucky ones.
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Mar 30, 2020 11:12pm
@Dr Vikas Jamwal ... Do you believe he had some other illness?
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Mar 30, 2020 11:27pm
Now he can move freely and resume Mega Corruption with his PPP teammates.
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Mar 30, 2020 11:45pm
@Dr Vikas Jamwal , Make yours doctorate certificate public first.
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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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Mar 31, 2020 12:42am
That was very quick.
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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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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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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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Mar 31, 2020 03:30am
@Asfand, for what, they don’t do any thing for people.
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Mar 31, 2020 03:47am
Alhumdulillah, It is nice to see his expedient recovery.
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Mar 31, 2020 04:51am
Stay home for good.
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Mar 31, 2020 05:44am
Keep serving sindh particularly Karachi and downtrodden people.(Texas)
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Mar 31, 2020 06:04am
I would not trust anything coming out PPP or PML-N member's mouth.
Publish the test report.
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Mar 31, 2020 06:27am
So many good people around the world have died of COVID 19.
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Mar 31, 2020 06:53am
Dont bet on chinesse kits...good to hear u r back . Corona fighter
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Mar 31, 2020 07:27am
@Saif Zulfiqar, what is your qualification, genius!
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Mar 31, 2020 07:29am
if you have cared , you would have kept cities of Sindh with good hospitals.
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Mar 31, 2020 09:28pm
Honestly, i doubts this
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