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 is still losing 5000 people daily from the novel coronavirus, and things may get even worse, as the northern hemisphere goes into the cold season, two experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday.