<span style="color: #222222;">In Tamil Nadu, the total number of COVID-19 infected cases has surged to 18,545 with 817 people confirmed positive today. They include 558 from Chennai and 138 returnees from Maharashtra. Chennai alone has got a caseload of 12,203 people. Six patients died of the disease today taking the toll to 133 so far, while 567 people were discharged.<br />''<br />''In view of the pandemic situation, the State Education Minister has said the schools are permitted to hold online classes for the students. He told reporters in Chennai today a committee on education will look into realigning the syllabus for all the standards so that the truncated working days due to the pandemic situation do not affect the students. The date of reopening of schools will be decided later after a higher level committee led by the Chief Minister meets and assesses the prevailing situation.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the Plus-Two public examination answer sheets valuation centres have been increased from 67 to 201 to meet the social distancing norms by the teachers. </span><br />