Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies’ (TIPS’s) ‘Tracker: The economy and the pandemic’ highlights important trends in the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa and how they affect the economy. Trends in Covid-19 infections in the Western Cape continue to look qualitatively different from the rest of the country. But the rate of growth in KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng accelerated sharply in the past week, while it continued to slow in the Western Cape. On 30 May, there were 310 cases per 100 000 people in the Western Cape, compared to 22 in the rest of the country. The next highest incidence was in the Eastern Cape, where there were 59 known cases per 100 000 residents.
