In Tamil Nadu, the Covid-19 recovery rate has reached nearly 89.5 percent. The state health department's latest says the total infection has gone up to five lakh 25-thousand while the recoveries have surpassed 4.7 lakh.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the Chennai Corporation has initiated the process of disbursing the third round of the dole of a thousand rupees each to the hawkers in the city.<br />''<br />''The active Covid-19 caseload in Tamil Nadu is almost stable for the past several weeks and the latest count is put at 46.6 thousand. The daily average new cases are estimated to be around five thousand five hundred for long despite the Unlock-4 relaxations. The number of tests every day has exceeded 80-thousand. In Chennai, the daily infections have also come under a thousand. <br />''<br />''The case mortality rate remains 1.64 percent. Another striking feature of the Covid-19 management in the state is that all the tests are being made using the RT-PCR kits which are considered the gold standard in the Covid-19 diagnosis. Epidemiologists view the data as the signs of the situation stabilising in the state though they emphasise that continued precautions and preventive efforts are necessary to keep the viral spread under check. <br />