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.
In a joint statement on Monday, the governments of Senegal, United States, Germany, Indonesia and Belize announced that they will be co-hosting the second COVID-19 summit on May 12, 2022. The summit follows the first Global COVID-19 Summit convened by the United States on September 22, 2021.
The virtual summit “will redouble our collective efforts to end the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for future health threats,” they said in a statement.
