Do not be fooled, Cov-19 doesn't disturb new project from launching, few new projects are using Cov-19 to make excuse, good quality projects don't see any reason to hold because of the pandemic, any project that do this should be considered as Controlled by weak team
These devs or people are not robots so basically, we will never know the story behind so we couldn't tell if they are using it as an excuse or maybe they are really affected. Proofs and facts are the basis and if in case there are delays they may need to provide explanations in that way investors won't be suspicious on them.