We couldn't connect to the Minecraft services error

Starting yesterday I am receiving an error when opening the Launcher:

Oh no! Something went wrong, and we couldn't connect to the Minecraft services. Try again

It was working fine previously.

Checking the logs (launcher_log.txt) seems to be an SSL error.

 

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Launcher. Now I am getting an error when trying to start it:

Couldn't load launcher core from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft Launcher\game\launcher.dll": LoadErrrorNotPresent.

If this is your first time running Minecraft, Please ensure you are connected to the internet so we can download updates.

Logs (launcher_log_reinstall.txt) still show an SSL error.

 

Edit: yesterday looking for known issues found this which is marked as resolved: MCL-21123 duplicate of WEB-5634