Canada's coronavirus epicentres are shifting from dense urban zones to more rural or remote areas that have lower vaccination rates and fewer public health resources, Reuters reports.

Some of those areas were spared in earlier waves of the pandemic and are now forced to contend with a widely spreading virulent strain of the coronavirus with fewer options at their disposal to deal with the surge.

Canada has high overall vaccination rates but pockets of hesitancy allow the virus to spread.

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