They were suffering from virus (and still are I am sure) as any other country out there, perhaps they've lost even more than any other country since their working power was their economy engine all the way and now it is still partially shut down.
Clearly there is something governments does not want us to know about, but I don't believe it is about virus' origins and/or amount of people ill out there.
They probably are hiding how much money they've lost during this quarantine because people would freak out
There is a fake fact that we received about the corona pandemic. Let's agree to move on from negative news about Corona and focus on resolving a pandemic by looking at a number of countries that are successful in preventing a pandemic. The main reason many countries are not open to the number of pandemic victims is to avoid chaos and keep saving the face of a government that has failed to stem the coronavirus. Many governments use economic calculations to solve humanitarian problems, so it is too late to take decisive action which ultimately results in greater losses.
A story from one of my buyers in Ho Chi Minh City that out of a total of 90 million inhabitants, only 270 people were affected by Corona and all of them survived, no one died, even though Vietnam borders directly with China. Since last Monday, Vietnam has been active since the lockdown for three weeks. My buyer thinks that in Indonesia conditions are very tense because the number of sufferers reaches 10,000 people.
Finally, we exchanged information on how to handle a pandemic in our respective countries. My buyer told me that the school was immediately closed since January when 10 positive people found corona until now. Even an area with a population of 10,000 people was isolated in mid-February to prevent the spread of corona. Vietnamese lockdown is similar to lockdown in Wuhan. Many airlines have been suspended, a two-week quarantine program for migrants from the red region and a ban on the export of wild animals.
Wuhan is now almost normal after 76 days of lockdown. So whatever news about corona in China can be accessed, there is no magic happening in China, only a combination of technology, management, and leadership to solve the Corona pandemic. Many world leaders underestimate the nature of making strategic decisions that cause complications to spread to domestic economic and political problems. In the end, what the government did that failed was to find a scapegoat instead of copying the steps of countries that were successful in suppressing corona.