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US air travel after Thanksgiving hits highest level since March
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IANS | 01 Dec, 2020
Air travel in the US hit the highest level since mid-March following the
recent Thanksgiving holiday amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said.
"TSA officers
screened 1,176,091 individuals at checkpoints on Sunday, Nov. 29. It's
the highest number since mid-March," Xinhua news agency quoted TSA
spokesperson Lisa Farbstein as saying in a tweet on Monday.
In
comparison, last year 2,882,915 people were screened the Sunday after
Thanksgiving, she said, noting that the volume in 2019 still remained
the highest ever in TSA history.
Despite the lighter-than-usual
Thanksgiving travel, the number was a matter of concern among public
health officials and experts, who had urged Americans to refrain from
travelling for the holiday and warned against traditional gatherings
with families and friends.
As air travel hits the highest level
since mid-March, hospitalisations of Covid-19 patients reached an
all-time high of 93,238 on Sunday, according to US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
In its latest update on Monday, the
the Covid Tracking Project said that the all time high hospitalisation
figure on Sunday surpassed the previous day's record of 91,63.
In
recent months, Covid-19 hospitalizations have gone up on a daily basis
across the country, currently the worst-hit in the world.
On
Tuesday, the Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and
Engineering revealed that the country's overall caseload and death toll
stood at 13,536,216 and 267,987, respectively.
The two tallies are the highest in the world.
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