Dr. Mark Ryan, head of the WHO emergencies program says "we need to get ready for something which may be more severe in the future."
A study of coronavirus antibodies in Wuhan, China has found that nearly half a million people in Wuhan may have had coronavirus. The number is ten times greater than official government statistics.
Spain's Health Minister, Salvador Illa, stated on Monday that the vaccine in that country will not be mandatory, but if you refuse it, the refusal will be recorded in a database.
Dr. Swaminathan said "I don't believe we have the evidence on any of the vaccines to be confident that it's going to prevent people from actually getting the infection and therefore passing it on."
The US government, Jewish groups, and media are outraged at the decision of a Pakistani court to release those convicted of organizing the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
China is expected to overtake the US five whole years earlier than was previously expected, according to a new study.
The Queen, too, is spending Christmas apart from most of her family members this year.
"This Christmas our thoughts are with those of you who are spending today alone, those of you who are mourning the loss of a loved one, and those of you on the frontline," the couple wrote on Twitter.
A broadcast from the Cuban government urged its citizens to eat rodent meat for Christmas dinner this year, claiming that the rodent meat was more sustainable and nutritious than other options.
The WHO changed the definition of 'herd immunity' on their website, eliminating the original position that it could be achieved by the virus spreading through the population.
A historic trade agreement has been ironed out between the UK and the EU on Thursday, all but closing the door on the past four years of often bitter negotiations.
A judge in the Cayman Islands has just reduced the sentence for an American and her boyfriend from four months to two.
The vaccines developed against the novel coronavirus are still expected to work against the new strain recently discovered in the UK.
Though the new strain appears to be 70 percent more infectious than the original, medical experts say that the symptoms of the new virus are the same and not more extreme.
Dr. Francesco Zambon in May filed an internal ethics complaint claiming that he was pressured into falsifying data by a senior official with WHO.