Sept 22 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan shares ended higher on Wednesday, snapping three straight sessions of losses, helped mainly by industrial stocks.

* The CSE All-Share index was up 0.20% at 8,788.05 points.

* Conglomerate Expolanka Holdings Plc and John Keells Holdings were the top percentage gainers on the index, rising 2.3% and 2.7%, respectively.

* The equity market's turnover was about 2.56 billion rupees, according to stock exchange data https://www.cse.lk/pages/daily-market-summary/daily-market-summary.component.html.

* Trading volume on the exchange fell to 88.7 million shares, from 106.7 million shares in the previous session.

* Foreign investors were net sellers in the equity market, offloading shares worth about 599.8 million rupees, as per exchange data.

** The country has decided to ask for a $100 million loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for its COVID-19 response and to procure 14 million doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, according to an official tweet https://twitter.com/MCND_LKA/status/1440552993313595402.

* The island nation reported 1,321 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 507,330.

* It reported 66 fatalities due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 12,284, health bureau data showed https://hpb.health.gov.lk/covid19-dashboard.

* About 51.02% of the country's entire population is fully vaccinated so far, according to data from Johns Hopkins University https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/sri-lanka.

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