Spain's cabinet is to hold an extraordinary meeting on Sunday morning to discuss declaring a national state of emergency, a government statement said on Saturday. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez "has called an extraordinary cabinet meeting at 10:00 am (0900 GMT) to study the conditions for a new state of emergency," it said, saying such a proposal had been "positively welcomed by most of Spain's autonomous communities, who had requested it". The measure will give Spain's 17 autonomous regions the legal tools to impose tougher restrictions, including curfews, on citizens living within their respective areas in order to slow the spread of the virus. The meeting comes just days after Spain registered more than one million virus cases, becoming the sixth country in the world to pass the grim milestone -- and the first in the European Union. hmw/har