Figure reference number refers to section number and not to figure

Question

I want to have the reference number of the figure referring to the figure number (1) and not the subsection number (1.1). What shall I do?

Here is the output:

Here is the code:

\documentclass[a4paper, 10pt]{article}
\usepackage{float} 
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks,
    filecolor=magenta,
    linkcolor=blue,
    citecolor=blue,      
    urlcolor=cyan,
    final
}
\definecolor{myblue}{RGB}{0, 32, 255}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{xurl}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{multicol}
\begin{document}
\title{\vspace{-2.0cm}
blabla
}
\author{\small Name of author}
\date{\vspace{-3ex}}
\maketitle
\begin{multicols}{2}
\vspace{-1cm}
\section{section 1}
\subsection{subsection 1}%\label{Complexity_of_MR}
\vspace{-0.2cm}
(figure reference
\ref{example-image-a}). 
\begin{figure}[H]
  \vspace{-0.4cm}
  \begin{center}
%    \includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{figures/MR_mechanisms_01.png}
    \includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{example-image-a}
  \end{center}
  \caption{caption}
\end{figure}\label{example-image-a}
\noindent
\end{multicols}
\end{document}