Fig. 3.

(Color online) Left panel:Time evolution of the total number of confirmed cases from March 5, 2020 through April 26, 2020 (squares). The dashed line is given by Eq. (5). As a guide to the eyes, we also show a power law fit of the data (full line). In the inset we exhibit the same data in the log-log scale. Right panel: Log-linear plot of the same quantities. The vertical dotted line marks the beginning of the isolation policies in Rio de Janeiro (March 17, 2020). One can see that the social distancing policies changed the initial exponential growth after 7 days (March 24, 2020).