TSA security director for several NY airports tests positive for coronavirus
New York NY April 2 2020
The TSA’s director of security at several metro-area airports has tested positive for the coronavirus.
“This is obviously not the lottery I wanted to hit, but I will press on through it,” Robert Duffy — the federal Transportation Security Administration’s director of security at LaGuardia, Islip, Westchester and upstate Stewart airports — told colleagues Friday in an e-mail obtained by The Post
“While I am required to stay out of work for the next 14 days, I will keep on top of the ongoing activity.”
Duffy wrote that he received the results from his doctor earlier Friday.
His e-mail came three days after he reported that a TSA agent at LaGuardia had tested positive for the COVID-19 bug — at that point, the second at the Queens airport to be infected with the virus.
At least 11 TSA employees in the New York area tested positive for the deadly bug before Duffy’s announcement.
“You are doing outstanding work in this difficult and challenging time,” Duffy added to staffers in the e-mail. “You have my full confidence to keep fulfilling our obligations to the American people who place their trust and confidence in us every day.”
The federal agency last week had workers scrub clean areas of LaGuardia’s Terminal B, where the two more recently diagnosed workers were assigned.
TSA officials did not respond to a request for comment Sunday.
