Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.
About 24,000 South African health workers have contracted coronavirus and at least 181 of them have died, health minister Zweli Mkwize told a news conference on Wednesday.