NEW YORK - The MTA is expanding the number of sites where it takes its employees' temperatures.

The "Temperature Brigade" will be stationed at 22 sites throughout the city up from the original seven.

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Those locations include Penn Station, Grand Central and the Queens Village Bus Depot.

They will be using thermal scan thermometers on workers' foreheads.

Anyone with a temperature of 100.4 degrees or higher will be sent home, and the brigade sends the findings to the MTA.

More than 40 MTA workers have died from COVID-19 and more than 1,500 workers have tested positive.