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The Victorian government is offering $10 in travel credits to the first 60,000 people to register their Myki in a program designed to boost contact tracing in Melbourne.
Authorities renewed their push for people to register their Myki in May after the man who caught Covid in South Australian hotel quarantine and was then infectious in the Victorian community – which later led to the outbreak that caused a two-week lockdown – travelled on a train to the football while infectious.
Contact tracers were unable to track down all the passengers who shared the carriage of the Craigieburn train. The virus popped up three weeks later in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. QR codes have been progressively rolled out across train stations and tram stops in Melbourne to further aid in contact tracing efforts.
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