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 Kingdom announced on Saturday that it had confirmed two cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant first detected in Botswana on November 11 and spreading rapidly in South Africa, despite its travel restrictions imposed on several countries in southern Africa.
