coronavirus after attending a "street party" following a funeral during lockdown, it has been claimed. The large gathering took place in Birmingham with crowds reportedly coming together illegally to celebrate the life of someone who had recently died.Council chiefs say it was one of several examples of hundreds of people breaching lockdown regulations to hold large funerals in the city.Paul Lankester, from the city council, said: "We've heard anecdotally that there was a rather large gathering in one funeral, it was a street, almost a street party type thing to celebrate the life of someone."We've heard that five people who attended that got Covid and passed away."On another occasion around 200 mourners tried to break into a cemetery to.