That’s one of our big problems with this. I believe *nothing* put out by the CCP. I think Trump should start calling this the Xi Jinping Chinese Communist Party Virus.
On another site, I saw an article about how a large increase in burial urns being ordered by the government in Hubei Province indicates something. I thought - its come to this? Its like Kremlin-watching the former Soviet Union. The media is tacitly admitting they know so little about China, and so distrust Chinese Government statistics, that they must resort to reports like this to guess what is really happening there.