<span style="color: #222222;">Tamil Nadu has recorded 771 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday. They include 324 in Chennai and 188 in Ariyalur districts, many of them are the contacts of workers in the wholesale market in Chennai that has become a major flashpoint for infection in the state.<br />''<br />''31 people were discharged and two people lost their lives due to the disease yesterday. So far 35 people have lost their battle against the pandemic.  More from our correspondent:<br />''<br />''"In a positive development, the wheels of knitwear factories in the country's hosiery capital Tiruppur have begun running since yesterday. The district administration has asked the managements to ensure that the state government guidelines based on the Centre's directives are followed in letter and spirit.<br />''<br />''Workers are allowed after thermal screening and the factories are being run by limited staff every shift.<br />''<br />''Similarly, in almost all the industrial estates that fall outside the containment zones, factories have restarted their works since yesterday.<br />''<br />''However, the usual work style has undergone a sea change due to the lurking pathogen.</span><br />