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Despite the coronavirus continuing to reach record case numbers, more people are traveling by plane.
On Monday, the Transportation Security Administration reported 430,414 people passed through its airport checkpoints — a nearly 400 percent increase from its record low traffic day during the pandemic of 87,534 in April.


“On the same date in 2019 there were 2,644,981 individuals who were screened at checkpoints nationwide, an 84 percent decrease from the previous year," TSA Public Affairs spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said in a tweet Tuesday.