China's a communist nation. Anything that makes their government look bad is a problem for them. This is the same reason they silenced doctors who first were noticing new cases of coronavirus back in December and why they chose to exile journalists from the country. They don't want the true number of cases getting out.
Exactly! As much as possible they want to control what's their real status. But it has blown up because the virus got out of their country and spreading fast. And so many articles discussing that someone's relative claiming that their relative's death due to corona has not been accounted for.