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 continued to lead the world in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths with nearly 75,000 new infections and close to a thousand fresh fatalities reported on Friday alone.