Royal Caribbean International has confirmed the first few scheduled sailings will be canceled due to positive cases of Covid-19 onboard the ship among crew members.

"All crew members on Odyssey of the Seas were tested on June 4 when the ship arrived in Port Canaveral, as part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Conditional Sailing Order,” royalcaribbeanblog reported on its website

The crew were tested again on June 10, and eight crew members tested positive. All crew have been asked to quarantine for 14 days, it said.

The ship operated in the Mediterranean, based in Israel, earlier this year. However, the programme had to be cancelled due to outbreak of violence in the region.

Odyssey of the Seas was delivered by Meyer Werft in Germany to Royal Caribbean International, the contemporary market unit of the Royal Caribbean Group, in the winter.