The only sane explaination why any government would try to downplay it will only be of one reason, they don't know how serious it could be, and frankly, when th

The only sane explaination why any government would try to downplay it will only be of one reason, they don't know how serious it could be, and frankly, when the outbreak starts in China, we know nothing about the virus, but at this moment, we have much more accurate data and research about how the virus works, and we should expect our governments to have better solutions at hand.