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.
As COVID-19 deaths have skyrocketed in Africa by 80 percent in the past four weeks due to the more transmissible Delta variant, global anxiety and outrage are surging over an unfair distribution of vaccines to developing nations, many of them in Africa.