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 World Health Organization (WHO) will be meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday, to decide whether it should give a name to a new COVID-19 variant with a large number of mutations detected in South Africa.