Half of the COVID-19 patients in Quebec hospitals were admitted for reasons other than the disease itself, the province’s data shows. The figure is in the ballpark of the Ontario number, announced to be around 45 percent by the province’s chief medical officer. In the latest daily update of Quebec’s COVID-19 situation, the province’s health ministry posted on Twitter on Jan. 21 that on Jan. 20, of the 3,086 hospitalized patients who have COVID-19, just half (1,549) were admitted for COVID-19. Quebec on Jan. 11 began differentiating between those admitted to hospital for COVID-19 and those admitted for other reasons but tested positive for the disease while in hospital. According to the daily updates since Jan. 11, the percentage of those admitted because of COVID-19 has consistently been between 48 and 50 percent. Quebec’s figures are somewhat in line with those of Ontario, whose chief medical officer Dr. Kieran Moore said at …