That's what doctors and experts who have actually visited China are telling us. Temporary hospitals are shutting down, emergency rooms are getting emptier, test queues are getting shorter, factory production, traffic, and air pollution are going back up. Ask anybody you know who lives in China, it's obvious to them.
If they're hiding the numbers, they're doing it across the board: infectious disease case numbers across the board are down, not just corona. This is true in China and in South Korea.
If not, it's just hard to believe.