diff --git a/awswrangler/mysql.py b/awswrangler/mysql.py
index 77c8a0268..7d002c52f 100644
--- a/awswrangler/mysql.py
+++ b/awswrangler/mysql.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ def connect(
         password=attrs.password,
         port=attrs.port,
         host=attrs.host,
-        ssl=attrs.ssl_context,  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+        ssl=attrs.ssl_context,
         read_timeout=read_timeout,
         write_timeout=write_timeout,
         connect_timeout=connect_timeout,
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a948fa0e8..2c5495951 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ dev = [
     "openpyxl~=3.1",
     "pyparsing>=3.2.1,<4",
     "pytest>=8.3.4,<9",
-    "pytest-cov~=6.0",
+    "pytest-cov>=6,<8",
     "pytest-rerunfailures>=15,<17",
     "pytest-timeout>=2.3.1,<3",
     "pytest-xdist>=3.6.1,<4",