Covid 19 coronavirus: Experts to testify at Melbourne hotel quarantine inquiry

Virus experts have stated the Victoria DHB is "one of the worst-funded and dysfunctionally organised in the nation". Photo / File

Expert evidence at Melbourne's hotel quarantine inquiry is expected to reveal more about how the bungled scheme led to the state's coronavirus disaster.

Professor Lindsay Grayson from Austin Health and Melbourne University and professor Ben Howden from the Doherty Institute are both slated to give evidence on Monday morning when the inquiry begins.

Epidemiologist Dr Charles Alpren from the Victorian Department of Health will appear on Tuesday.

The experts will testify about the nature of Covid-19, infection control, epidemiology, contact tracing and genomic testing.

Howden is the director of the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory at the Doherty Institute.

The institute's research has previously been cited by Victorian chief health officer Brett Sutton, who said it suggested a large proportion or perhaps even all of Victoria's current Covid-19 cases stemmed from hotel quarantine.

Grayson is the director of infectious diseases and microbiology at Austin Health and a professor of infectious diseases at Melbourne University.

In July he penned a scathing op-ed about the Victorian department of health, labelling it "one of the worst-funded and dysfunctionally organised in the nation".