Coronavirus updates: Sunday case count 376, same as day before

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SALT LAKE CITY — Here are the latest updates on COVID-19 from Utah and around the world.

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Sunday, 10:55 pm

As college leaders meet, football players push to play

The Power Five conference commissioners met Sunday to discuss mounting concern about whether a college football season can be played in a pandemic, and players took to social media to urge leaders to let them play.Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said no decisions on the season have been made, but conceded the outlook has not improved.“Are we in a better place today than two weeks, ago?” he said. “No, we're not.”Bowlsby cited “growing evidence and the growing pool of data around myocarditis.”Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart and it has been found in some COVID-19 patients. There is concern it could be a long-term complication of contracting the virus even in young, healthy people, a group that has usually avoided severe cardiovascular symptoms.— Associated Press

Sunday, 01:05 pm

376 new cases and 1 death reported Sunday

The Utah Department of Health is reporting 376 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state Sunday and one death from the disease.The new confirmed cases figure exactly matches the number of new cases reported on Saturday.Those numbers come as 4,258 more Utahns have been tested for the novel coronavirus over Saturday's numbers, and bring the state up to a total of 44,127 confirmed cases and 336 deaths since the pandemic began.The seven-day rolling average of new COVID-19 cases in Utah is 411. Gov. Gary Herbert challenged the state to get that number below 500 by Aug. 1, which it did, and has now called on Utahns to continue working for a rolling weekly average of less than 400 cases a day by Sept. 1.— Graham Dudley, KSL.com

Sunday, 11:11 am

US coronavirus cases pass 5 million

US surpasses 5,000,000 coronavirus cases as school districts plan to reopen and thousands descend on Sturgis, South Dakota, for the world's largest annual gathering of motorcycle enthusiasts. https://t.co/CI6almjygR