>They endured a fast and entirely unexpected rise in infection rates during a period where WHO was still repeating the Chinese regime's claims that covid19 didn't spread among humans.
Do you have any evidence from that? China locked down 11 million people in Wuhan on January 23[0] which was a whole week before the first cases showed up in Italy[1].
[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-idUSKBN1...
[1]: https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_gennaio_30/coronavirus-i...