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Hong Kong customs seizes 333,000 fake N95 respirators in city’s largest confiscation of counterfeit masks
Hong Kong authorities have made their biggest ever seizure of counterfeit surgical masks, a consignment worth HK$8.5 million that was intercepted in the city on its way overseas.The record haul of about 330,000 bogus 3M-brand N95 respirators was confiscated from a logistics company’s warehouse in Kwai Chung last week, the Customs and Excise Department revealed on Tuesday.It was customs’ third such seizure in as many months, amid the world’s ongoing fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.Hong Kong…