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 2000 people have died from coronavirus in U.S. and roughly 120,000 infections have been recorded so far with the number climbing by the hour, according to latest data update from Johns Hopkins University and others.