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.
New COVID-19 infections have been dropping rapidly in South Africa in the past three weeks from 12,000 a day to around 5,000 daily cases, President Cyril Ramaphosa said during a national address on Saturday.