<span style="color: #222222;">In Tamil Nadu, the total number of recoveries from Covid-19 has risen to 4.81 lakh, which is 89.7 percent while the total number of cases has gone up to 5.36 lakh. Over 83-thousand people were tested during the past 24 hours in the state and 5,569 people were confirmed positive of COVID-19.<br />''<br />''A notable feature in Tamil Nadu is that the active caseload is consistently under 47-thousand for the past many days. The recoveries often outnumber new infections.<br />''<br />''Nearly 62 lakh people have been tested so far, all using the RT-PCR kits, which are considered the gold standard in Covid testing. More than 80 percent of the patients who required hospitalisation were treated in Government facilities.<br />''<br />''The state health department is aiming at converting at least fifty percent of the Covid beds in Government hospitals with hi-flow oxygen cannulas, as the experience shows oxygen cannulas are more in demand than ventilators in Covid clinical management. </span><br />