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.
COVID-19, the deadly respiratory disease ravaging the world, is particularly decimating the United States. Already, close to 170,000 people have died from over 5.2 million infections, according to a virus tracker by John Hopkins University.
