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Code yellow declared at Royal Darwin and Palmerston hospitals for second time this year

The Royal Darwin Hospital is the primary health facility serving the Top End. (ABC News: Che Chorley)

Northern Territory health officials have placed the Royal Darwin and Palmerston hospitals into a 'code yellow' for the second time this year, a day after the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese toured the facility.

In a statement released on Tuesday evening, the Northern Territory Health Department said the declaration was made amid a surge in patient admissions into the territory's largest hospital. 

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