<span style="color: #222222;">In Tamil Nadu, total lockdown is being observed today, as intensified curbs are in force during all Sundays since long to check overcrowding in public places.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, the total COVID-19 infections in the state have surpassed 3. 73 lakh with 5980 people tested positive yesterday.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">They included 1294 in Chennai. The recoveries have increased to more than three lakh 13 thousand, leaving over 53-thousand people as the active caseload.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, since the early stages of the reporting of COVID-19 cases in Tamil Nadu, Chennai continues to bear the maximum caseload due to the high population density, more public and freight movement and a variety of other reasons. But the pattern began to change since the 20th of July with Chengalpattu district exceeding the ten thousand mark, the first outside Chennai.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It was soon followed by the other two districts contiguous to the state capital, namely, Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Now Coimbatore, Madurai, Thoothukudi, Theni and Virudhunagar also are in the club and at least three others are in the race to join it in just a few days.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">However, a positive aspect is that the active caseload as inferred from the state health department's latest media bulletin is just 14.4 per cent of the total infections. Nearly 84 per cent of them have recovered.</span><br />