Co-chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19, Professor Salim Abdool Karim says it will likely hit at the beginning of winter. And, he says the time to begin planning for it, is now.

Meanwhile, the country's COVID-19 infections have increased by 3,751 over the last 24 hours.

This brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 1,466,767. The Department of Health has reported 261 more coronavirus related deaths in the last 24 hours.

Karim discusses the expected third wave, how variants develop, and the efficacy of vaccines against the new variants:

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