<span style="color: #222222;">In Tamil Nadu, the Covid-19 caseload has climbed to 21,184 with a record 938 new cases tested positive today. This is the highest single day spike in the state so far. However, 687 people returned home from hospitals after cure, leaving the active caseload at 9,021. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In Chennai, the tally has surged to nearly 14,000 with 616 of the new cases reported from the city. Six patients lost the battle against the disease in the last twenty four hours across the state taking the tally to 160. Our correspondent says, the bed capacity is being increased substantially in Chennai, as most of the new cases are being reported from the city. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, in Chennai, the Covid-19 care centre capacity has been added by another one thousand five hundred beds. They have been arranged by modifying the state Slum Clearance Board multi-storey tenements at Pulianthope in one of the highly infested Thiru Vi Ka Zone in the city corporation. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The state health department has said only those asymptomatic and young patients with no comorbidity conditions will be accommodated there. If they develop any symptoms at any time, they will be shifted to the nearby designated Covid-19 hospital. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">There are five such designated hospitals in the city. Besides, ten colleges have also been converted into Covid-19 care centres where asymptomatic patients are accommodated. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Furthermore, the government has said it is in talks with private hospitals to fix an upper ceiling for Covid-19 treatment. Generally the tests are done freely in Government facilities. However, for those who admit the patients under the state comprehensive health insurance scheme and Ayushman Bharat scheme, the RT-PCR test rate has been capped at 2500 rupees.</span><br />''