diff --git a/falcon/util/uri.py b/falcon/util/uri.py
index f9a772785..a2a324f02 100644
--- a/falcon/util/uri.py
+++ b/falcon/util/uri.py
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ def unquote_string(quoted: str) -> str:
 
 # TODO(vytas): Restructure this in favour of a cleaner way to hoist the pure
 # Cython functions into this module.
-if not TYPE_CHECKING:
+if not TYPE_CHECKING:  # pragma: nocover
     if _cy_uri is not None:
         decode = _cy_uri.decode  # NOQA
         parse_query_string = _cy_uri.parse_query_string  # NOQA