SSL certificate verification failure on Windows

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I tried logging in to prefect cloud using Git bash but got the following (truncated) error message:

File "C:\Users\hgachuru\.virtualenvs\prefect-tutorial-jK7ixAt2\Lib\site-packages\httpcore\_async\connection.py", line 149, in _connect
    stream = await stream.start_tls(**kwargs)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\hgachuru\.virtualenvs\prefect-tutorial-jK7ixAt2\Lib\site-packages\httpcore\_backends\anyio.py", line 78, in start_tls
    raise exc
  File "C:\Users\hgachuru\.virtualenvs\prefect-tutorial-jK7ixAt2\Lib\site-packages\httpcore\_backends\anyio.py", line 69, in start_tls
    ssl_stream = await anyio.streams.tls.TLSStream.wrap(
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\hgachuru\.virtualenvs\prefect-tutorial-jK7ixAt2\Lib\site-packages\anyio\streams\tls.py"    await wrapper._call_sslobject_method(ssl_object.do_handshake)
  File "C:\Users\hgachuru\.virtualenvs\prefect-tutorial-jK7ixAt2\Lib\site-packages\anyio\streams\tls.py", line 131, in _call_sslobject_method
    result = func(*args)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\hgachuru\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\ssl.py", line 979, in do_handshake

    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1006)
An exception occurred.

Has anyone experienced the same issue? How can I resolve it?

Please note that I’ve tried nearly all solutions from this stackoverflow page