We can't trust anything China says. They try to save their face, see how currently they try to look like the model to follow in managing the crisis.
Everything else giving a bad image of the country, you can see the Chinese dictatorship censoring the media.

Now what they need is the economy to pick up, the factories to start working again, for people to go back to work. And if they need to lie to the world to make it happen they won't hesitate