Information from govt and the media always has be viewed with a cautionary and skeptical eye. Information is disseminated by these entities usually with a specific intent. Usually to support a particular point of view. The DR Govt. is no different. There has been and continues to be concerns about the covid numbers being released and how they are being gathered, interpreted and used. It's not just a matter of illness vs deaths. As mentioned this virus can have long lasting impacts on the health of those who become infected. It's not just a case of get sick and get better or die. Testing will probably never produce an accurate reflection of the reality of this disease at any given time. So when we hear that infection numbers are going up or down we can never be sure if that is the case or how much movement there has been in any given direction. Using these faulty stats to justify policy or protocol decisions is just a guessing game and the Govt knows full well that their numbers are inaccurate. That's the case here in the DR and elsewhere. The factual truth is obscured by flaws in the system or by deliberate intent. The the average person can never be sure which.
Citing the lack of dead people on street corners after a gathering as proof of anything disingenuous. This disease does not kill people where they stand. It causes them to suffocate somewhere where they are lying down. usually at home on in a hospital. The govt then gets to fiddle with these numbers for their own purposes and only then present the numbers to the public. The change in the curfew hours I believe has more to do with economics and public sentiment than anything to do with falling infection numbers. To paraphrase Windeguy, "the virus is still out there everywhere" and you too can catch it if you get too close to the wrong people. If you do catch it, you may be ok or you may not be. That's the problem. the media, the govt and the public health people can't really tell you for sure how your body will be affected by the virus. There still doesn't seem to be any sort of agreement on the best way to treat this infection and treatment is inconsistent from country to country, hospital to hospital. It's essentially a game of craps despite all the amateur doctors who insist that getting Covid-19 is no big deal. Easy for a noninflected person to say with no real skin in the game. Those that have been sick and recovered often tell a very different story which seems to be causally dismissed by those with an alternative point of view they wish to spread.
There is no denying that this pandemic has hurt people financially and ruined lots of businesses. It is also certain it will continue to do so until science can deal with this on a level above asking people to wear masks and distance themselves. However, the level of open hostility put forward by some when criticizing the efforts of govt to keep too many people from getting sick at the same time is a bit baffling and comes across as exceedingly callous and at times dismissive.