By Leopold Munhende FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube says government’s biggest priority for now was to save citizens from Covid-19 as opposed to opening the country for people to pursue livelihoods. He was speaking at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport where some government officials were receiving the country’s first batch of Covid-19 vaccines in the form of 200 000 doses of Sinopharm donated by China. “Our strategy as a government in dealing with the pandemic is saving lives first and then livelihoods,” said Ncube. “The vaccine constitutes a silver bullet in terms of dealing with the pandemic and saving lives.”