Source?
From wikipedia:
> The first suspected cases were reported on 31 December 2019
From wikipedia:
> The first suspected cases were reported on 31 December 2019
Some people have some weird imagination
Firstly there isn't one case confirmed in HongKong yet.
Secondly, the virus could take up to 2 weeks to start showing symptoms and it is only until recently the method to detect this virus efficiently had been discovered.
This is a new virus, and its behavior takes time to understand.
[0], [1]
I agree this is a new virus we know little about, but did you know folks in Wuhan were still gathering in crowds without any precautions [2], and ppl got caught spreading so-called fake news of this virus?
[0] https://twitter.com/alvinllum/status/1219911842723553283
[1] https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1504214-20200122.h...
[2] https://twitter.com/Xhnsoc__Redflag/status/12194676125282181...)
Now they suddenly started to release updated numbers (due to pressure from their neighbouring countries) and you think it'd only "escalated in a week".
Some people have some weird imagination
* http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202001/01/WS5e0c6a49a310cf3e3...
Where is due to the pressure part? At first there had not been showing enough evidence of the virus's capacity to spread from human to human, which only confirmed recently because the medical staff gets infected and 2 cases in Guangdong, so the alert level is much lower than it is now.
You can blame the Chinese authority for not fully predicting the severity of the situation, but intentionally covering stuff up is a different accusation you better have strong evidence to support that.
Some people indeed had some weird imagination.