<span style="color: #222222;">In Tamilnadu, more than 31 thousand COVID patients recovered today. The number of fresh cases drastically dropped below 20 thousand and stood at 18,023. A total of 409 people succumbed to the pandemic. Around 2,18,500 patients are under treatment for the pandemic. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">More than 1.70 lakh samples were tested through RT PCR. Coimbatore still had a maximum of 2439 fresh COVID cases today. Chennai  and Erode districts reported more than a thousand fresh COVID cases each.</span><br />''  <br />