I am not saying China hasn't stabilized it, but that a lot of what it says were not believable & the death toll was likely to be much worse.
The bit about the other far east countries getting it under control is interesting, & has been puzzling myself for awhile. When this virus started the countries most affected not including China, were Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan & South Korea. Ignore the latter two who for various reasons got out of control, but the others have somehow gotten it under control, which makes little sense, as most of them are the sort of places where an virus like this would thrive. Now, there were suggestions that the Coronavirus was like Flu & other viruses that are seasonal. How true that is I don't know, but it just seems strange how the viruses just stopped in those countries, & has never really settled in countries south of the equator, except when they have travelled in. I hope this is true & the damn thing is seasonal & slowly goes away around the world. Just have to wait & see.