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Two of the three Transportation Security Administration agents at San Jose’s Norman Mineta International Airport who tested positive for the coronavirus performed pat downs on passengers, the agency revealed Thursday.

The two also handled travel documents, body scanners and carry-on luggage.

That new information came in an email response from the TSA to San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo obtained by this newspaper, which said the TSA had responded to a push from Liccardo, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, and Santa Clara County Board President Cindy Chavez for more transparency.

The TSA’s response included the duties performed by the three workers who were confirmed to have COVID-19 on Tuesday. Those positive tests prompted the quarantining of 42 workers.

A statement from the TSA late Tuesday said the officers who tested positive were receiving medical care and all of the agency’s employees they came into contact with over the previous 14 days were quarantined at home.

According to the TSA information disclosed in the email Thursday, one of the officers operated the X-ray machine, a body scanner and the walk-through metal detector on Feb. 21, the employee’s last day of work before the sickness. The employee also performed pat-downs on passengers and carry-on luggage bags as needed.

Another employee whose final day before the sickness was Feb. 26 did all of those things and also checked travel documents.

The third employee who tested positive last worked March 2. That employee also checked travel documents and had access to the airport as a “known crew member.”

All three worked in Terminal B and checkpoint B.

“Current TSA standard operating procedures require front-line personnel to wear nitrile gloves when screening an individual or their property, which adds an additional layer of protection,” the agency said in the email to Liccardo. “Gloves are changed after contact with any passenger or their personal property. Any swabs utilized as part of a screening procedure (checkpoint and checked baggage) would not be reused for multiple passengers. Finally, TSA has authorized frontline personnel whose security screening tasks require them to routinely come into close contact with the traveling public to wear surgical masks if they choose to do so.”

The TSA also said in the email that it is continuing to monitor the situation.