Up to 10,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen could be deployed on the ground
The military have, so far, helped organise repatriation flights from China and Japan, including those from the cruise ship. They are currently engaged in returning passengers from another cruise ship, the British operated, which has docked in Havana after other ports in the Caribbean turned it away. Four aircraft are in Cuba at present to carry out the evacuation.
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