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TSA to Require Employees to Wear Facial Coverings Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
The TSA said Thursday it will begin requiring employees to wear “facial protection” at screening checkpoints, more than two months after the outbreak in the U.S.
The TSA said Thursday it will begin requiring employees to wear “facial protection” at screening checkpoints, more than two months after the outbreak in the U.S.
A TSA officer at Newark Liberty International Airport has become the fifth employee of the agency to die from the coronavirus.
Nearly 500 TSA employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, and four have died.
A customs agent at Miami International Airport has become the fourth TSA employee to die from the coronavirus.
A TSA screener at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the third employee from the agency to die from the coronavirus.
The coronavirus has ravaged TSA workers, infected 378 of them and killing two.
The coronavirus has hammered TSA workers more than previously thought.
More than 100 TSA employees, most of them screeners, have tested positive for the coronavirus since the U.S. outbreak began.