<span style="color: #222222;">In Tamil Nadu, the total Covid19 infection has crossed one lakh, 65 thousand with 4807 new cases yesterday. A record 88 people succumbed to the disease in the past 24 hours. More than 3,000 patients returned home after recovery in the same period.<br />''<br />''State Health Minister C Vijayabhaskar has said that a plasma bank in Chennai will come into operation very soon.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, works on establishing the country's second convalescent blood plasma bank in Chennai to treat Covid-19 patients is progressing at a fast pace. The State Health Minister Dr Vijayabhaskar has appealed to those who recovered from the disease to come forward to donate their blood plasma.<br />''<br />''Talking to reporters at Thoothukkudi yesterday he said the experiments with the therapy in the state have given encouraging results. He reiterated there are enough RT-PCR kits and all other medical inputs are in sufficient stock. </span><br />