Aug 10 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares ended lower on Tuesday, weighed down by losses in financial and consumer staple stocks, while rising domestic COVID-19 cases also weighed on investors' risk appetite.
* The CSE All-Share index ended 0.38% lower at 8,070.88.
* Conglomerate LOLC Holdings and finance and leasing company LOLC Development Finance Plc were the top drags in the index, falling 1.9% and 2.3%, respectively.
* Sentiment took a further beating after the island-nation reported https://hpb.health.gov.lk/covid19-dashboard 2,953 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing its total confirmed cases to 332,947, while deaths rose by 111 to 5,222.
* Data https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/sri-lanka from Johns Hopkins university showed the country had fully vaccinated about 12.74% of its population so far.
* Trading volume on the exchange fell slightly to 186.6 million shares from 187.7 million shares in the previous session.
* Foreign investors were net buyers in the equity market, purchasing shares worth 84.8 million rupees ($426,130.65), exchange data showed https://www.cse.lk/pages/daily-market-summary/daily-market-summary.component.html.
* The Sri Lankan rupee was last quoted at 199 against the U.S. dollar, as of 1145 GMT, steady from previous session's close, according to Refinitiv data.
* The equity market's turnover was 4.73 billion rupees, according to the exchange data.
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($1 = 199.0000 Sri Lankan rupees) (Reporting by Anuron Kumar Mitra in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)
