diff --git a/.github/workflows/workflow.yml b/.github/workflows/workflow.yml
index f6e21de..0578fce 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/workflow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/workflow.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         python-version: [3.9]
         pip-packages:
-          - "setuptools pip pytest pytest-cov coverage codecov mypy"
+          - "setuptools pip pytest mypy"
       fail-fast: false
 
     steps:
@@ -45,6 +45,4 @@ jobs:
     - name: Test with pytest
       run: |
         pip install pytest
-        pytest -v --cov 
-    - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
-      uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
\ No newline at end of file
+        pytest
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0036d6f..8f6e93b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ![Tests](https://github.com/uit-cosmo/xFELTOR/actions/workflows/workflow.yml/badge.svg)
 [![Sourcery](https://img.shields.io/badge/Sourcery-enabled-brightgreen)](https://sourcery.ai)
-[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/uit-cosmo/xFELTOR/branch/main/graph/badge.svg?token=X5056EG1CR)](https://codecov.io/gh/uit-cosmo/xFELTOR)
 # xFELTOR
 xFELTOR provides an interface for collecting the output data from a
 [FELTOR](https://github.com/feltor-dev/feltor) simulation into an