Morning Report Essentials for Wednesday 19 June

On today's episode, the big new North Shore Hospital building that has been empty for months is set to partially open - but it won't result in any more surgery, former Prime Minister Helen Clark, who co-chairs the Independent panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, has released a new report which says the Covid-19 crisis wasn't the end of pandemics, the Conservation Minister Tama Potaka says it would cost hundreds-of-billions, maybe trillions, of dollars to save all native species in New Zealand from extinction and instead we should identify the highest value conservation areas to target, and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has come under fire after describing former business delegations as C-listers and tag-alongs.