Brasilia, July 19 (RHC)-- Brazil has passed the two million confirmed coronavirus cases mark, with little sign that the rate of increase is slowing as anger grows over President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the outbreak.

In recent weeks, there have been nearly 40,000 confirmed new cases per day, according to government figures, and it took just 27 days for Brazil's total case-load to rise from 1 million to 2 million cases.

Earlier this week, confirmed cases in Brazil totaled 2,012,151, while deaths numbered 76,688.

Experts blame denial of the virus' deadly potential by Bolsonaro and lack of national coordination combined with scattershot responses by city and state governments, with some reopening earlier than health experts recommended.