As the day unfolded: No new infections in Victoria; NSW records ten days with no locally-acquired cases

Zero new COVID-19 cases recorded in Victoria

NSW records 10 days with no locally-acquired coronavirus cases

Melbourne man tests positive after flying to Brisbane, Bundaberg for work

Australia could be poised for boom in Hollywood production, says Ausfilm boss

Indonesia coronavirus cases surge to nearly 1000 in a single day

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That's all I have for tonight but please check back in for our next COVID-19 live blog which should be up early tomorrow morning.

Plant-based proteins are already seeing a pandemic bump after coronavirus outbreaks forced closures at some of America's largest packing plants. Soy-based burger maker Impossible Foods Inc. and pea-based meat imitator Beyond Meat Inc. have spread into grocery stores across the U.S., and buying of meat alternatives had tripled from a year earlier in the eight weeks ended April 25, according to Nielsen data.

Faux meat had already catapulted to the zeitgeist last year, captured in the blistering initial public offering for Beyond Meat. More Americans have dubbed themselves flexitarians -- people who regularly substitute other foods for meat -- and vegan products have shown up on menus of nationwide chains including TGI Fridays. Even traditional giants like Tyson Foods Inc. have move toward offering alternatives.

Even then, meat demand remains strong, said Sarah Little, spokeswoman for the North American Meat Institute, which represents companies that process 95 per cent of America's red meat. Despite tight supplies and purchase limits in place for popular cuts, sales volume grew 5 per cent for the week of May 24 compared with a year earlier, according to data from researcher IRI.

Still, the pandemic has highlighted longstanding issues in the country's food-supply chain that many people are seeing for the first time, Balk of the Humane Society said. That is prompting consumers to look for alternatives to industrialized meat, he said.

There have been at least 44 meatpacking worker deaths and more than 3,000 workers tested positive for Covid-19, according to estimates from United Food & Commercial Workers International Union. The slowdowns in processing also led to the largest pig culling effort the U.S. has ever seen as hundreds of thousands of animals were backed up on farms.

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Other social restrictions are also being eased under plans for a "new normal" regime that will allow businesses to re-open as long as health rules are followed.

However, in the last two weeks the country has recorded fewer than 500 new daily cases just three times.

While testing rates have improved and President Joko Widodo's goal of 10,000 tests per day has been met and surpassed - 13,095 tests were performed on 7930 people according to the daily update - the country still lags well behind neighbouring countries.

Overall, 394,068 tests have been performed on 264,740 people - a relatively small number for a nation of nearly 270 million people.

Australia has performed more than 1.5 million tests on a population of 25 million people, in comparison while Singapore has performed 408,495 tests and 5.6 million people and Malaysia has done 462,257 tests on 31 million people.

More concerning is the fact that the percentage of positive tests returned is a relatively high 11.5 per cent.

Health Ministry spokesman Achmad Yurianto urged Indonesians at his daily briefing to "adapt to the protocols. Stay indoors as much as possible, wash your hands as often as possible, observe physical distancing, avoid crowds. Let us protect our families, our cities, our nation".

"We have to understand that the vaccine we and the whole world hope for is not available yet. It's not clear when a vaccine can be mass produced to provide us all with immunity against the virus. While waiting we have to adapt and change our way of life," he said.

The highest number of cases reported on Saturday was 286 in East Java province, which is home to the country's second largest city, Surabaya. Jakarta, the epicentre of the virus outbreak, reported 104 new cases.