More than 1.3 million travels were screened by TSA on Sunday, which represented the highest single-day number since the start of the pandemic. The total followed 1.19 million travels on Saturday, leading to the highest consecutive-day total since March.
The travel came despite many health experts and government officials advising families to spend the holidays at home and celebrate through virtual get together.
From Dec. 18 through Jan. 3, TSA screened more than 1 million passengers in a single day 11 times. From March 16 through Dec. 17, the agency saw more than 1 million people in a single day only five times - four of which came during the week of Thanksgiving.
On Sunday, 1,327,289 travelers passed through TSA, which was down 45% from last year. On Saturday, 1,192,881 travelers passed through TSA. Prior to Dec. 23, the number would have been the most since March. It now ranks as only the fourth highest since Dec. 23.
At New England’s six major airports, TSA screened 33,699 on Sunday, the second highest number of passengers during the end-of-year holiday season. Dec. 27 represented the highest total with more than 35,000.
With the increase in holiday travel, health experts anticipate a surge of cases of coronavirus in the middle of January.
Cases surged following increased travel during Thanksgiving. According to TSA data, millions of more people traveled during Christmas.
As of Monday morning, the United States had experienced more than 20 million cases of coronavirus with more than 351,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. Throughout the pandemic, at least 371,097 Massachusetts residents have contracted COVID-19 and 12,341 have died, according to public health officials.
The Link LonkJanuary 04, 2021 at 08:50PM
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