Chennai unlock 2.0 news: Today's updates

Emerging from a 100-day lockdown, punctuated by a brief, fortnight-long exit, the city opened up to brisk business. Stay with us for all the latest updates from Chennai and the rest of Tamil Nadu.
*The high recovery rate in Chennai has been on the back of numbers in zones like Royapuram, Tondiarpet, Anna Nagar and Teynampet, where more than 80% patients have recovered, data shows.
*Chennai’s recovery rate nears 80%, civic body data shows
*Tamil Nadu labour welfare minister Nilofer Kafeel has tested positive for Covid-19 and has quarantined herself at home in Chennai.
*The R-value or effective reproduction number for Chennai has fallen below one at 0.78 +/- 0.02 for the period July 10-14, indicating the outbreak may have been contained, says Sitabhra Sinha, professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
*As fresh cases of Covid-19 slowly drop in Chennai -- Thursday’s number was 1,157 -- a mathematical model suggests the infection is no more an epidemic in the city.