SeaDream Yacht Club, an Oslo-based private owner of two cruiseships, has suspended sailings following a Covid-19 outbreak on the very first ship to sail the Caribbean since March.

The high-end cruise operator last week announced that seven passengers and two crewmembers on 112-berth SeaDream 1 (built 1984) caught the virus while headed to Barbados.

"The company will now spend time to evaluate and see if it is possible to operate and have a high degree of certainty of not getting Covid," it said on Tuesday.