<p>The sudden development of the COVID-19 pandemic exposed
the limitations in modern healthcare systems to handle public health
emergencies. It is evident that adopting innovative technologies such as
blockchain can help in effective planning operations and resource deployments. Blockchain
technology can play an important role in the healthcare sector such as improved
clinical trial data management by reducing delays in regulatory approvals,
streamline the communication between diverse stakeholders of the supply chain
etc. Moreover, the spread of misinformation has intensely increased during the
outbreak and existing platforms lack the ability to validate the authenticity
of data, causing people to panic and act irrationally. Thus, developing a
blockchain-based tracking system is important to ensure that the information
received by the public and government agencies are reliable and trustworthy. In
this paper, we focus on blockchain abilities to track the COVID-19 data
collected from various sources including news, healthcare professionals,
researchers etc, verify and append them in a secure and trusted distributed
ledger. Thus, we propose a generic framework using Ethereum smart contracts and
oracles to track real-time data related to the number of new cases, deaths and
recovered cases obtained from trusted sources. We present detailed algorithms
that capture the interactions between stakeholders in the network. The smart
contract code was developed and tested in Remix environment. We present the
cost and security analysis incurred by the stakeholders and highlight the
challenges and future directions of our work. Our work demonstrates that the proposed
solution is economically feasible and ensures data integrity, security, transparency,
data traceability among stakeholders. </p>