Is it me that you are asking to justify? Which statement? If you meant the latest victims then I take my data directly from the Health Department press releases.
Everything I have written here is backed up by the data at the my site which I linked above; it includes a list of the age, sex and previous medical condition (if known) of all the 40 victims to date. The site also has links to the source data.
None of what I write is speculation - I leave that to the likes of the SCMP which you seem to regard as the fount of all wisdom, but which I feel is in no small part to blame for the current panic. My site contains facts and factual, verifiable analysis. Please take the time to read it and the sites linked from it before dismissing it out of hand.