By A Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said it is important that government prioritises people’s lives ahead of the economy considering that the people are more important than the economy.

Said Mnangagwa according to the state media:

“I have been studying events worldwide, how governments are reacting to these things. Some border on the line of carelessness: some border on the line of over-cautiousness. So, we must find a way to err on the side of cautiousness rather than on the side of carelessness,

The economy can die and it can be resuscitated now or in future. It doesn’t matter, because as long as people are alive you can have conferences and discuss how do we resuscitate the economy’ but I have never seen a conference where people are discussing how to resuscitate the dead.

We as Government and as the President decided with this (Covid 19) challenge what do we do? Balancing the need for economic growth and the lives of people as well as saving lives, I came to the conclusion that if people die, we cannot resuscitate them,”