The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in December 2019 and is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is a global public health emergency. We developed a more sensitive and improved method for detecting SARS-CoV-2 by combining bioluminescence in real-time (BART) and reverse-transcriptase loop-mediated amplification (RT-LAMP) protocols (RT-LAMP- BART), which was also...