Whenever the socket client connect to the the socket server I get the following error:

Client connected:  3uRG6PtVuta3wHsbAAAD
message async handler error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ahmed/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/engineio/async_server.py", line 483, in run_async_handler
    return await self.handlers[event](*args)
  File "/home/ahmed/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/socketio/async_server.py", line 669, in _handle_eio_message
    await self._handle_connect(eio_sid, pkt.namespace, pkt.data)
  File "/home/ahmed/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/socketio/async_server.py", line 552, in _handle_connect
    success = await self._trigger_event(
  File "/home/ahmed/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/socketio/async_server.py", line 638, in _trigger_event
    ret = handler(*args)
  File "/home/ahmed/PycharmProjects/decimal-trade/prices.py", line 27, in connect
    if not thread.is_alive():
AttributeError: '_asyncio.Task' object has no attribute 'is_alive'

The socketio server

from aiohttp import web
from threading import Thread
import socketio
import requests 

sio = socketio.AsyncServer(async_mode='aiohttp', logger=True, engineio_logger=True, cors_allowed_origins='*')
app = web.Application()
sio.attach(app)

thread = Thread()
url = 'https://financialmodelingprep.com/api/v3/stock/real-time-price?apikey=yfmtiz4PGwIlCalGtRjsLcrQ9rF6NAHt'

async def server(request):
    return web.Response(text='Server Running...')

async def getPrices():
    while True:
        data = requests.get(url)
        data = data.json()
        data = data['stockList']
        await sio.emit('stocks', {'data': data}, namespace='/prices')
        await sio.sleep(60)

@sio.on('connect', namespace='/prices')
def connect(sid, environ):
    global thread
    print('Client connected: ', sid)
    if not thread.is_alive():
        thread = sio.start_background_task(getPrices)

@sio.on('disconnect', namespace='/prices')
def disconnect(sid):
    print('Client disconnected: ', sid)

app.router.add_static('/static', 'static')
app.router.add_get('/', server)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    web.run_app(app, host='127.0.0.1', port=8080)

The socket.io-client in react

import { io } from 'socket.io-client';

const URL_ = 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/prices';

export const socket = io.connect(URL_, {
    cors: {
        origin: 'http://127.0.0.1:8080',
        credentials: true,
    }
});