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(PNA photo) MANILA - A lawmaker on Thursday urged the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to allow private subdivisions or villages to do their own booster vaccination for their residents. Quezon City Rep. Precious Hipolito Castelo said the authorities should expect crowding in many vaccination sites with the government's decision to shorten the time for giving the booster dose from six months to three months. Castelo said many village residents are afraid to go to crowded centers to get vaccinated for fear of catching the virus. She also noted that village associations, particularly in the city's second district that she represents, are willing to do booster vaccination for their constituents. Castelo noted that they would not lack volunteer medical doctors, nurses, and other health professionals from their residents. "We should welcome the desire of many people to receive additional protection from Covid-19 and its new va