enter image description hereI have a worker thread for a PYQT5 application that feeds into a progress bar when the function is called. The issue is that I am getting a com_error: (-2147221008, ‘CoInitialize has not been called.’, None, None) whenever I call the excel function. How can I fix this error?

I created the following Worker class and progress bar class which calls the worker class.

import sys
import time

from PyQt5.uic import loadUi
from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QDialog, QApplication,QMainWindow, QWidget, QProgressBar,QVBoxLayout
from PyQt5.QtCore import QThread, pyqtSignal, QObject, pyqtSlot
import win32com.client as win32


month="April"    
excel = win32.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Excel.Application')
excel.Visible = True
excel.DisplayAlerts = False
destination=rf"C:UsersRCDesktopImportant EmailsWIP Special WorkingsFY2024{month}"


class Worker(QObject):
    finished = pyqtSignal()
    intReady = pyqtSignal(int)
    @pyqtSlot()
    def proc_counter(self):
     count=0
     data_file = rf"C:UsersRCDesktopImportant EmailsWIP Special WorkingsFY2024{month}gl transaction download-cc1.xlsx"
     template_file=rf"C:UsersRCDesktopImportant EmailsWIP Special WorkingsFY2024{month}GL Dump - {month}.xlsx"
     wb_template = excel.Workbooks.Open(template_file)
     wb_data = excel.Workbooks.Open(data_file)
     count+=20
     self.intReady.emit(count)
     
     wb_template.Sheets("GL Data Jan").Range("A2:W5000").Clear()
     wb_data.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A2:W5000").Copy()
     wb_template.Sheets("GL Data Jan").Paste(wb_template.Sheets("GL Data Jan").Range('A2'))
     count+=20
     self.intReady.emit(count)
     #excel.Selection.Copy(Destination=wb_template.Worksheets("GL Data Jan").Range("A2"))
     #wb_template.Worksheets("GL Data Jan").Range("A2:W5000").AutoFilter(20)
     wb_template.RefreshAll()
     time.sleep(3)
     count+=40
     self.intReady.emit(count)
     wb_template.Save()
     count+=19
     self.intReady.emit(count)
     wb_template.Close(True)
     wb_data.Close(True)
     excel.Application.Quit()
     count+=1
     self.intReady.emit(count)
     self.finished.emit()
     return None
            

            
    
class PopUpProgressB(QWidget):

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.pbar = QProgressBar(self)
        #self.pbar.setRange(0,0)
        self.pbar.setGeometry(30, 40, 500, 75)
        self.layout = QVBoxLayout()
        self.layout.addWidget(self.pbar)
        self.setLayout(self.layout)
        self.setGeometry(300, 300, 550, 100)
        self.setWindowTitle('Progress Bar')

        self.obj = Worker()
        self.thread = QThread()
        self.obj.intReady.connect(self.on_count_changed)
        
        self.obj.moveToThread(self.thread)
     
        self.obj.finished.connect(self.thread.quit)
        self.obj.finished.connect(self.hide)  # To hide the progress bar after the progress is completed
        self.thread.started.connect(self.obj.proc_counter)
       

    def start_progress(self):
        # To restart the progress every time
        self.show()
        self.thread.start()

    def on_count_changed(self, value):
        self.pbar.setValue(value)

class Screen2(QDialog):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Screen2,self).__init__()
        loadUi("GL_Dump_Curr.ui",self)
        self.pushButton_2.clicked.connect(self.gotoScreen1)
        self.popup=PopUpProgressB()
        self.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.popup.start_progress)