My understanding is that it was extra deaths, in addition to an average flu season.
No idea about your second question but given that coronavirus but I do know coronavirus isn't a flu virus so perhaps not a link in this case. I'll leave that one to the virologists I think.
A lot of the comment i hear is 'if you weren't going to die from flu, you won't get this one and die' but I guess there aren't actually the facts to back up that assumption! (these people aren't medics btw, just pub chat)
My understanding is that it was extra deaths, in addition to an average flu season.
No idea about your second question but given that coronavirus but I do know coronavirus isn't a flu virus so perhaps not a link in this case. I'll leave that one to the virologists I think.