Gauteng will emerge with the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the coming days, overtaking the Western Cape, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.

GRAPHICS | Gauteng recording more Covid-19 cases a day than Western Cape has at any point

He said, when the country moved from lockdown level 4 to 3, there was a large inward movement of people as economic activities resumed.

"It is anticipated that while every province will, unfortunately, witness an increase in their numbers, areas where there is high economic activity will experience an exponential rise – beginning with Gauteng and Western Cape and followed by Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal."

Western Cape numbers have not yet surged as expected

Touching on Western Cape, Mkhize said the department had received reports that  members of the public remained reluctant to subject themselves to quarantine and isolation, despite the government having secured the sites in various parts of the province.

Mkhize said, having compared the real numbers with those depicted in predictive models, the department had noticed that the Western Cape had not quite reached the surge expected by modellers.