Hong Kong biotech Prenetics rides COVID wave to Nasdaq

Virus test provider helped soccer's Premier League resume play

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Prenetics has launched Circle HealthPod, a portable device aimed at delivering lab-quality diagnostics and a health monitoring system. (Photo by Pak Yiu)

PAK YIU, Nikkei staff writer

HONG KONG -- Biotech startup Prenetics, a COVID-19 test provider that helped soccer's Premier League resume matches, is set to go public Wednesday on the Nasdaq, making it Hong Kong's first unicorn to list.

The market debut will see Prenetics absorbed by a New York-listed special purpose acquisition company backed by New World Development CEO Adrian Cheng in a deal that values the diagnostic testing business at $1.25 billion.

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