diff --git a/aws-opentelemetry-distro/src/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/patches/_otlp_metric_exporter_patches.py b/aws-opentelemetry-distro/src/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/patches/_otlp_metric_exporter_patches.py
index 8be564a0c..a8b5fa269 100644
--- a/aws-opentelemetry-distro/src/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/patches/_otlp_metric_exporter_patches.py
+++ b/aws-opentelemetry-distro/src/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/patches/_otlp_metric_exporter_patches.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 
 # The OpenTelemetry Authors code
-def _apply_otlp_metric_exporter_patches() -> None:
+def _apply_otlp_metric_exporter_patches() -> None:  # pragma: no cover
     """OTLP Metrics Exporter patches for getting the following change in the upstream:
     https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/commit/12f449074e80fa88b59468a48b7a4b99dbcda34d
     """