MTA staff are back on track

More than a dozen subway or bus employees were out due to COVID-19, MTA officials said Sunday — a dramatic turnaround from the height of the city’s Omicron wave, when worker absences forced the agency to scale back service.

“As of Friday, there were just 15 subway/buses employees calling out due to COVID-19, and all subway lines that had been suspended are back,” MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan told The Post.

Worker absences during the Omicron wave peaked at 20% of the total bus and subway workforce of around 40,000, Donovan said. COVID accounted for 70% of absences.

Transit leaders reduced service as absences piled up starting in late December and early January. The B, W and Z trains all went dark, along with the Rockaway Shuttle and express service on the 6 and 7 lines.

The MTA initially declined to disclose how many of its workers were out with COVID. All six lines had resumed by Jan. 24, by which point the MTA said worker absences had dropped to 7%.

New York state’s singleday COVID-19 positivity rate dropped below 4% on Friday.