get string/current date with required format to Date datatype in angular

I need to get current date in ‘yyyy-MM-dd’ format having Date datatype.

I tried below

public today = new Date();
public currentDate = this.datepipe.transform(this.today, 'yyyy-MM-dd');

When I console following it gives me currentDate as string but I need currentDate in Date datatype.

console.log('current date', this.currentDate); //output 2022-11-09
console.log('type if currentDate', typeof(this.currentDate)); //output string

How I can get currentDate in Date datatype? or is there any other way to get this? Please help.