Since the first reported cases in December 2019, the rapidly emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has been causing tremendous public health challenges worldwide (WHO, 2020a). Timely detection and isolation of cases and their contacts are considered crucial to help curtail this unprecedented pandemic (Nguyen et al., 2020). This strategy relies on robust, rapid, and easy-to-perform diagnostic tools that can be used to test large numbers of samples in a short period of time.
