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.
U.S. drugmaker, Pfizer Inc., and German company BioNTech SE, on Friday, asked regulators in the United States to allow emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine.