Temperature Scans Not Part of TSA’s Updated COVID-19 Airport Security Protocols
The Transportation Security Administration is urging but not requiring passengers to wear face masks when they pass through airport security checkpoints, said the agency Thursday in updating COVID-19 protocols. TSA began requiring screening agents to wear face masks earlier this…
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month (see 2005070018). All major U.S. airlines now require passengers to wear masks onboard the aircraft. TSA is partially relaxing limits on what liquids can be carried through the checkpoints to allow each passenger a 12-ounce bottle of hand sanitizer, it said. Other changes include requiring passengers to scan their own boarding passes when going through the screening instead of handing paper or electronic documents to the agent. Missing from the list of new procedures are passenger temperature scans, which TSA previously said were under discussion.