His name is Dr Bruce Aylward, a Canadian doctor in the W.H.O. He wasn’t the only member of the team but he did most of the speaking in the presser. They were in China, in Wuhan and other places. He felt the drop in numbers was real because they could see the empty beds in the hospitals.

You can find the whole two hour presser with q and a’s on YouTube - look for coronavirus WHO expert global news. Well worth watching .