Midday Report Essentials for Tuesday 30 July 2024

On today's episode, police are again searching farmland near Christchurch for missing woman Yanfei Bao, we get the latest on the new Dunedin hospital project, which newly-appointed Health Commissioner, Dr Lester Levy says could be downscaled, the high court trial of a retired eye surgeon accused of murdering his wife and staging her death as a suicide has continued this morning, and NIWA have observed an increase in ocean temperatures east of New Zealand which could impact key fisheries.