The fresh relaxations have come a week after the government has poured large-scale mitigation of the lockdown as part of the fourth phase of unlocking the nationwide lockdown.
The authorities attribute the decline to the relaxations as several offices and establishments have been allowed to resume and people are coming outdoor and they spent less time in their homes.
Gradual resumption of schools would be one of the significant relaxations poured by the Center to pull out the nation from the lockdown experiment to containing the COVID-19 spread.
With the current reporting of 988 fresh cases, Chennai has recorded 1,43,602 cases so far of which 1,29,677 have been discharged and 2,896 had died due to the global pandemic.
The opposition parties have demanded the state government to make the reason, why a person with a criminal background was put on COVID-19 duty, public.
Charan said that SPB is watching a lot of Cricket and Tennis on his iPad. He is happy that the seasons have started. He is looking forward to IPL. He is writing and communicating a lot".
The streets in T Nagar in Chennai were busy on the evening hours of Sunday as people have thronged in the shops and larger establishments, picturing the pre-COVID-19 weekend.