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Seventeen more people linked to the Tokyo Olympics have tested positive for COVID-19, including one athlete, bringing the total since the beginning of this month to 123, games organizers said Saturday.

The total includes 14 contractors and two games officials, one of whom had been staying at the athletes' village, they said a day after the Olympics, delayed for one year due to the coronavirus pandemic, officially started, Kyodo News reported.

The athlete is non-Japanese but had not been residing in the village, according to the organizing body of the games. The data, compiled by the committee, go back to July 1 and do not include athletes and staff who tested positive at pre-games training camps in Japan.

The organizers have vowed to stage a safe and secure Olympics and Paralympics, with quarantine rules and testing to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

But positive results have continued to trickle in daily, amid concern over whether COVID-19 countermeasures are being properly followed.

The Tokyo Olympics run from July 23 to August 8.