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.
On Tuesday, the novel coronavirus killed 1,067 people in the United States, 1,215 in Brazil, 1,045 in India and 827 in Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University virus tracker.