Queen’s birthday list honours key figures in UK Covid vaccine drive

Taskforce chief Kate Bingham gets damehood and Oxford research leaders also rewarded

Key figures in the battle against Covid-19 and Britain's vaccine success have been rewarded in the Queen's birthday honours list, with vaccines taskforce chair Kate Bingham getting a damehood.

Honours are also bestowed on two leaders of the research teams at the Oxford Vaccine Centre who developed and manufactured a vaccine backed by the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. Prof Sarah Gilbert, Said professor of vaccinology at the Jenner Institute, becomes a dame while Prof Andrew Pollard, professor of paediatric infection at the University of Oxford, gets a knighthood.