Afghan Health Minister Mohammad Amin Fatemi told RFE/RL had said earlier today that Dadullah's body would be exchanged for the release of the five health workers.
A representative of Dadullah's family was expected to receive his body.
The Taliban spokesman had threatened that militants would kill all the hostages if the authorities did not hand over Dadullah's body as soon as possible.
Dadullah was killed by U.S.-led forces in May.
Meanwhile, the U.S.-led coalition says it killed about two dozen Taliban fighters on June 4 in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar.
Taliban fighters reportedly attacked coalition forces with rockets and gunfire in the province's Shah Wali Kot district about 35 kilometers north of Kandahar city.
The coalition says its aircraft bombed three Taliban positions during the four-hour battle, which was on the eastern edge of a defensive perimeter around the strategic Kajaki Dam in neighboring Helmand Province.
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