resume dinein services from monday after a break of 70 days in chennai however the number of restaurants to open their shutters on monday could be limited due to issues over paucity for labours and poor finances to renovate the facilities that remained shut for more than two months eateries that would open are unlikely to increase prices in chennai though restaurants across the rest of tn are mulling a 10 increase in prices in the next couple of weeksas per the directions from the school education department more than two lakh teachers would return to their schools on monday to carry out class x exam preparatory works update at 1000am record singleday spike of 9983 covid19 cases takes indias tally to 256611 death toll rises to 7135 with 206 fatalities union health ministry private hospitals in chennai had 1048 beds free as of sunday as per the dashboard of the government and their icus had just 97 beds vacant beds are available on demand only in private medical college hospitals in the southern and western suburbs chennais neighbouring districts didnt have a respite either chengalpet topped the list with 135 cases tiruvallur had 55 and kancheepuram 16with tamil nadus covid19 graph continuing its surge chief minister edappadi k palaniswami on sunday appealed to the people for their cooperation to check community transmission covid19 infections showed no signs of abating in tamil nadu with fresh cases topping 1500 in a day for the first time on sunday taking the tally to 31667 tamil nadu recorded 18 deaths including that of a pregnant woman pushing the toll to 269chennai continued to bear the brunt with 1156 of the 1515 new cases pushing up the demand for hospital beds for the first time in days the number of people under treatment in chennai 10982 exceeded the number of those cured 10954 on sundaygovernment hospitals in chennai remained crowded and patients had to be rushed to private hospitals which were also filling up