The FAA briefly halted air traffic in NYC area after an air traffic employee tested positive for COVID-19

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The Federal Piloting Assistants momentarily halted departures from New York as well as Philadelphia airports hindmost a trainee at the New York Air Thoroughfare Truckage Dominance Middlemost in Unfurled Island vitalized positive for COVID-19 today. The person had not been at the facility back Maturate 17th, as well as the FAA is sanitizing high-sounding areas.

As of 2:45 PM ET, the bureau had lofty the ground stop order, according to the Associated Press.

The Unfurled Island center, which primarily handles high-altitude, cross-country flights, remained open. Except the FAA rerouted flights "as partage of a longstanding contingency plan to ensure elongated operations."

The FAA said in a statement that it is "working with regional health officials as well as envoy roundup to determine how many personnel numen have interacted with the trainee in recent days."

CNBC reported that there have been staffing issues due to coronavirus at FAA facilities circa the country; on Wednesday, flights from McCarran Large-scale Airport in Las Vegas were diverted because an air truckage controller there "potentially vitalized positive" for COVID-19.

Update Maturate 21st 2:51PM ET: Adds that the FAA lofty the ground stop order