Five mourners died of Covid after attending a lockdown 'street party' wake alongside hundreds of people after a funeral in Birmingham, a councillor told mosque leaders today. Current government rules state no more than 30 people are allowed to attend a funeral, indoors or outdoors, with up to 15 permitted at memorial events. The council boss also highlighted how in an unrelated incident legal action was underway against one funeral director who had flouted the strict rules on attendances. 'We've had a very serious incident in the last fortnight where we have taken action against a funeral director,' he said in the meeting. 'People were just breaking in, but what we did was we stopped them, we escorted them and the funeral stopped.

Source: Daily Mail November 13, 2020 16:40 UTC