Contact tracing is an important measure to counter the COVID-19 pandemic. In the early phase, many countries employed manual contact tracing to contain the rate of disease spread, however it has many issues. The manual approach is cumbersome, time consuming and also requires active participation of a large number of people to realize it. In order to overcome these drawbacks, digital contact tracing has been proposed that typically involves deploying a contact tracing application on people's mobile devices which ca…