TOKYO—Global shares were mostly higher Tuesday despite worries about rising numbers of coronavirus cases. France’s CAC 40 added 0.7 percent in early trading to 7,266.59, while Germany’s DAX edged up 0.3 percent to 16,064.91. Britain’s FTSE 100 gained 1.2 percent to 7,475.46. The future contract for the Dow industrials was 0.2 percent higher and the contract for the S&P 500 also gained 0.2 percent. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 1.8 percent to 29,301.79 in Tokyo’s first trading day of 2022. Shares also rose in Australia, South Korea, and Hong Kong, but edged lower in Shanghai. Toyota Motor Corp. gained 6.1 percent, while Sony Corp. added 3.4 percent. Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki and other dignitaries rang a bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange to herald the opening of trading. At the smaller exchange in Osaka, in western Japan, women carried on the tradition of attending the year’s opening ceremony in colorful …