dec 7 reuters  sri lankan shares ended higher on tuesday rising for a second straight session as heavyweight industrial stocks gained  the cse allshare index cse added 049 to end at 1108817  conglomerates expolanka holdings expocm and richard pieris  company richcm were the top boosts to the index gaining 16 and 81 respectively  the equity markets turnover was 602 billion rupees 2973 million according to stock exchange data  trading volume rose to 8732 million shares from about 253 million shares in the previous session  foreign investors were net sellers in the equity market offloading shares worth 1221 million rupees as per exchange data  the islandnation reported 741 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours taking the total to 568423 while deaths rose by 23 to 14484 data from the countrys health bureau showed  about 6314 of the countrys population has been fully vaccinated so far according to data from johns hopkins university reporting by anuron kumar mitra in bengaluru editing by vinay dwivedi