Article content COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the City of Cold Lake. As of press time Sunday evening, there were 53 active cases in the city, according to Alberta Health Services. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. That is almost five times the cases Cold Lake had recorded three weeks ago. On Sunday, the city had an infection rate of 268 active cases per 100,000 people. A COVID-19 outbreak had been declared by AHS at Art Smith Aviation Academy, meaning the school had between five and nine cases of the coronavirus. Between two and four COVID-19 cases were listed as being connected to North Star Elementary School and Cold Lake Middle School.