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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 has killed more than 2100 Americans in the past 48 hours alone, even as the number of new cases reported on Thursday in the United States was the second-highest on record since the pandemic began.