A senior TSA official in Kansas filed a complaint against the agency, saying itfailed to provide enough training and protective gear to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus to airport employees and travelers.
The TSA is moving forward with a plan to administer temperature screenings at about a dozen airports as soon as net week.
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.
