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.
The Biden administration is sending 5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Africa out of the first 25 million doses it is sending to the world to help end the coronavirus pandemic. It is part of at least 80 million U.S. vaccine doses the U.S. will be sending to countries in the world by the end of June.