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 United States has passed six million confirmed cases of the coronavirus and more than 183,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic 221 days ago, according to Johns Hopkins University.