Prominent Melbourne businessman and former AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick has called for political accountability for the hundreds of COVID-19 deaths in aged care facilities, arguing the failures are "far worse" than financiers who lost their jobs during the banking royal commission.

As Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews prepares to unveil a reopening plan on Sunday, Mr Fitzpatrick said the state might need to stop focusing so much on daily COVID-19 case numbers and learn from international experience to live with the virus in a functioning economy.