Not logical...
We also know in totalitarian hellholes truth travels from trusted person to trusted person. Husband to father, husband to wife, wife to sister, sister to husband, to father and so on... And it travels fast. Within days most Asian countries were reacting to this situation like an engineered bio-weapon had been released.
Even China reacted that way...
Acted like it was a released bio-weapon... and China's had their full share of other regular flu types over the years.
More than 18,000 Americans have died from this seasons generic flu so far... Worldwide, there have been about 3,400 coronavirus deaths, out of about 100K identified cases. Flu, by comparison, grimly reaps about 291K to 646K annually.