Caracas, April 15 (RHC)-- According to data compiled through April 11th, Venezuela had carried out 181,335 COVID-19 tests, which allowed Venezuelan health authorities to detect patients in time and become the Latin American nation with the lowest infection rate.

"President Nicolas Maduro's measures place Venezuela as the country that has best fought the COVID-19 pandemic so far," Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said.  "The recovery rate is the highest in the region with 53 percent, far above Colombia that only reaches seven percent and Brazil with 0.8 percent," he added.

Additionally, while Brazil has an average of 104 infected persons per million, Venezuela has only six infected patients per one million inhabitants, a successful result that would not be possible if the Bolivarian government had not performed COVID-19 tests free of charge.

As of Tuesday morning, Venezuela, a country with over 28 million inhabitants, had reported 189 COVID-19 cases and 9 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins data base.