Big Brother Naija season 7 housemate, EloSwag, has emerged as the first Head of House for the season.
This was announced after the Big Brother Naija Level Up housemates had their first Head of House games on Monday evening.
The Level 1 and Level 2 housemates came together to play the HoH games in the arena and Eloswag became the best performing housemate.
Following his performance, Big Brother announced him as the first Head of House for the season.
Level 1 meets Level 2 housemates
The Level 1 housemates met the Level 2 housemates for the first time during the HoH games on Monday evening.
Before the start of the games, Big Brother explained how the housemates happened to be in separate houses in the game.
Before the launch, two housemates were paired and each had their names written on two cards, a black-and-white card and a multi-coloured card.
Housemates with their names in the multicoloured card belongs to the Level 2 house, which are the first set of housemates who came into the show on Saturday.
The one whose name appeared on the black and white card belongs to the Level 1 House, who came into the show on Sunday.
Head of House Games
The HoH games was in two stages. All housemates participated in the first stage while the best five participated in the second stage.
Biggie noted that the winner of the games will emerge as HoH and automatically save his/her fellow Level (1 or 2) housemates from possible eviction.
Cyph, Eloswag, Bryann, Dotun, and Khalid made it into the second stage.
After the round, Eloswag won the stage, making him the first HoH for the season.
Head of House privileges
As Head of House, Eloswag enjoys bragging right as the first ever Head of House for the season.
He also enjoys immunity from possible eviction at the end of the week.
With his emergence, Eloswag has saved the Level 1 housemates from possible eviction.
Joe Biden is “feeling well” and “doing just fine” after testing positive for Covid, the White House coronavirus response coordinator said on Sunday.
Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation, Ashish Jha said: “So it is the BA.5 variant, which is about 80% of infections. But thank goodness, our vaccines and therapeutics work well against it, which is why I think the president’s doing well.
“I checked in with his team late last night. He was feeling well. He had a good day yesterday. He’s got a viral syndrome, an upper respiratory infection, that is, and he’s doing just fine. So we haven’t gotten any updates this morning, but through last night, he was feeling much, much better.”
Biden’s positive test was announced on Thursday. At 79, the president is the oldest ever inaugurated. He is also, as he said, double-vaccinated and double-boosted and has access to the best possible care.
Jha was asked if the White House “will continue to make disclosures if [Biden] has long-term symptoms from this infection”.
“Absolutely,” Jha said. “You know, we think it’s really important for the American people to know how well the president’s doing, which is why we have been so transparent, giving updates several times a day, having people hear from me directly, hear directly from his physician.
“And obviously if he has persistent symptoms, if any of them interfere with his ability to carry out his duties, we will disclose that early and often.
“But I suspect this is going to be a course of Covid that we’ve seen in many Americans who have been fully vaccinated, double-boosted, getting treated with those tools in hand. You know, the president has been doing well, and we’re gonna expect that he’s going to continue to do so.”
Jha also suggested cities seeing high case rates, including New York, Phoenix and Miami, might consider re-instituting indoor mask mandates.
“Masks work, right? They clearly slow down transmission. So in areas of high transmission, I think it’s very prudent for people to be wearing masks indoors, especially if they’re in crowded, poorly ventilated spaces. That’s what the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] recommends. And I think that’s a very important and effective way of reducing transmission, protecting yourself as well.
“You know, whether, in terms of mandates, and that’s something that we’ve always felt strongly should be done by local officials, mayors, governors, local health officials, and we’re seeing different officials take different tactics. And I think that’s actually appropriate given that we have a very diverse country with different transmission patterns and and willingness to kind of engage in-in wearing masks.”
Jha was also asked about monkeypox, which on Saturday the World Health Organization declared a “public health emergency of international concern”. Would the Biden administration declare a pandemic?
“Pandemics are declared by the World Health Organization,” Jha said, “and I actually applaud the World Health Organization for declaring that public health emergency of international concern. We are seeing outbreaks that are out of control in many, many parts of the world. It’s very important that we get our arms around this thing.
“In the US right now, we’re looking at public health emergency as something that [the health department] might … invoke but it really depends on what does that allow us to do. Right now we have over 2,000 cases, but we have ramped up vaccinations, ramped up treatments, ramped up testing, and we’re going to continue to look at all sort of policy options. Right now, we think we can get our arms around this thing, but obviously, if we need further tools, we will invoke them as we need them.”
Jha said he thought monkeypox could be contained.
“The way we contain monkeypox is we have a very simple, straightforward strategy on this, which is: make testing widely available. We have done that. And now testing is far more frequent and common.
Answering the charge that the US was caught flat-footed by monkeypox, Jha said: “What I would acknowledge is that when we started two months ago, we had a limited supply of vaccines. We have obtained more than any other country, probably more than every other country combined. We have acted swiftly.”
Asked if people should be concerned about another infectious disease, polio, which has been detected in New York state, Jha said: “There is a lot of surveillance that we do for polio, there’s wastewater surveillance that goes on, we are not seeing outbreaks of polio elsewhere.
“This one case has heightened everybody’s surveillance. But … CDC and the Department of Health of New York are doing an investigation to try to understand more, but I do not expect polio to become more widespread in the country, again, because so many Americans are vaccinated against this.”
