PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte insisted on Saturday that the government's procurement of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) supplies was "legal," as he defended his former economic adviser Michael Yang against a Senate inquiry into the alleged questionable purchase of medical supplies

from a pharmaceutical company during the pandemic.

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