The content originally appeared on: CNN This grim milestone comes about a year and eight months since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic in March 2020. The first 50 million cases were reported over the first eight months - a full year ago, on November 7, 2020 - and there have been about 50 million new cases reported about every three months since then. Globally, more than 5 million people have died of Covid-19, JHU data shows. […]