There'll need to be cooperation from World Health Organisation member states to enact recommendations on the Covid-19 response.

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has co-chaired a panel on the global response to the virus, which has just released a report.

She says told Mike Hosking China's cooperation will be needed to negotiate a pandemic convention, and give the WHO greater powers.

She says the report hasn't fired missiles of blame around.

“But quite dispassionately setting out what happened; where the delays were why that was a problem and what needs to be fixed, but we need member state cooperation to fix it.”

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