Lambda variant of COVID-19 is said to have originated from Peru and is more contagious and dangerous than the Delta variant.
Vaccine effectiveness in preventing both infection and symptomatic disease fell to 64 per cent since Jun 6, the Health Ministry said.
The boy received the first dose of the Pfizer jab Jun 27 after being assessed by trained healthcare personnel.
In other news, the United Arab Emirates overtook Seychelles to become the world's most vaccinated nation.
The median age of patients in the study was 63. Most of the patients (106) had solid cancers.
The Indian version Covishield has not even requested for the market authorization, according to reports.
Ertugliflozin, an FDA approved drug for type-2 diabetes, works as SGLT-2 inhibitor by removing excessive glucose through urine.
Results from a Phase 2 trial of Covaxin indicate that it is safe and well tolerated, while unpublished interim results from the Phase 3 trial indicate that the vaccine has 78 per cent efficacy against symptomatic disease.
The vaccine produced neutralising titers against all variants tested, including the Delta variant.
Study shows people who took mNRA vaccines such as Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna could be protected for many years from the virus.
According to the CDC, the variant now represents at least 20 per cent of Covid cases in the US,
The woman suffered from a rare and catastrophic condition after receiving the first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine.
The study also found that mutations in the Beta variant make the spike less effective in binding to ACE2.
Researchers from the University Hospitals of Strasbourg in France followed 97 Covid-19 patients who lost their sense of taste and smell for an entire year.
The discovery shows that the virus can change in unexpected ways and find new ways to cause infection.