China (I don't know how much credible anything out of China is) said that after a strict quarantine for 2 months they finally saw a peak in number of cases.

In the course of history all of the most economically successful countries are those with the least government.Pretty sure Hong Kong isn't rioting because they are looking forward to mainland China's gift of additional infrastructure. 

I've seen some very clever micro kitchen setups from China, Japan and Korea recently as they try to make do in smaller living quarters.