“If you have a cough, please wear a mask in the practice,” it warned, adding that anyone with symptoms should book a telephone call but be “available to attend in person within 30 minutes ...

It said: ‘If you have a cough, please wear a mask in the practice,’ adding anyone with symptoms should book a telephone call but be ‘available to attend in person within 30 minutes’.

Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory illness. Symptoms, which are similar ... “People were wearing masks and not going to large group gatherings,” Weber said.