The reported new contracts come as experts mull booster shots to combat the fast-spreading Delta coronavirus variant.
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Hong Kong police have arrested two men in a crackdown on a four-year-old website that offered more than 30,000 illicit upskirt photos and videos for sale for as much as HK$400 each. One of the two suspects, a 36-year-old company director, was the alleged administrator of the website, which was set up in 2017 and boasted more than 50,000 members, according to acting superintendent Cheung Wai-ho of the force’s cybersecurity and technology crime bureau.
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