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More testing for a specific thing gives you more positives than what you aren't testing for, so if you test more for C.19 then you will of course get more +ve results.
Even despite that the self reporting (which is massively under the actual number of people contracting flu) influenza rates are still massively higher than that for C.19 in every countries data that I've looked for.
Also the number of C.19 cases are seemingly being used as an aggregate, not taken as a weeks worth as per the government and indeed WHO method of reporting cases per 100k for influenza, this massively distorts the figures even more especially during peak times of an outbreak.