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TSA spokesperson, Lisa Farbstein, said Thursday morning that 1,191,123 individuals were screened at airport checkpoints nationwide on Wednesday More than 6 million people have flown since Friday, including 1.2 million on Wednesday, making it the highest single-day checkpoint volume since the start of the pandemic.  The 6,343,001 million total is down 55 per cent compared to the 14,024,645 who flew during the same period last year, but represents a sharp uptick in comparison to recent months. Transportation Security Administration spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said Thursday morning that 1,191,123 individuals were screened at airport checkpoints nationwide on Wednesday.  'It’s the highest checkpoint volume since March 16, when 1,257,823 people were screened,' Farbstein said, adding that any one who travels this holiday season should 'wear a mask'. The revelation comes just a day after the TSA reported that more than 5 million people passed through airport checkpoints acros

Dame Esther Rantzen has praised 'dedicated' health workers after she received a jab of the coronavirus vaccine.  The veteran campaigner, 80, said she was 'thrilled' to be offered the 'miracle' shot at Milford War Memorial Hospital in Lymington, near her New Forest home in Hampshire.  She has spent the last 10 months in isolation away from her family but hopes the vaccine will mean she will be able to see her grandchildren in February after getting a second jab. Dame Esther Rantzen has praised 'dedicated' health workers after she received a jab of the coronavirus vaccine 'I was thrilled when my GP's surgery rang and I was summoned for my jab. We eighty-year-olds are so privileged to receive the best, the only effective protection against Covid,' she told the Express.  'I feel so grateful to the dedicated scientists who invented it and the equally dedicated NHS who deliver it to us. It's a miracle.'  Dame Esther became a household n

Lorry drivers stranded in Kent for the past three days have told MailOnline of their heartache today at missing out on Christmas Day with their families amid the ongoing border chaos. Thousands of drivers from countries including Hungary, Slovenia and Romania are likely to spend Christmas stuck in the UK after the Government indicated queues outside Dover will not move for at least another 24 hours. It comes as a group of Sikh volunteers tried to the raise the spirits of the stranded drivers with a delivery of 1,000 Domino's pizzas last night, while relief has also been provided by the Salvation Army and a local football club. Lorry driver Doma Dumitru, 41, had been hoping to spend tomorrow with his wife Alina, 40, and their 12-year-old daughter Daria Maria back home at Oradea in north-west Romania. He has been stuck in Dover since Monday after France closed its border with Britain following the emergence of the new highly infectious strain of coronavirus. Mr Dumitru said: 'Nor