GUANGZHOU -- A growing outbreak of the omicron coronavirus variant has brought renewed attention to smugglers who carry goods and, increasingly, people between Hong Kong and mainland China.
On a tributary of the Pearl River in Guangzhou dwell more than a hundred small fishermen's boats with their holds exposed and engine rooms emptied.
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