diff --git a/web_programming/covid_stats_via_xpath.py b/web_programming/covid_stats_via_xpath.py
index d22ed017878c..85ea5d940d85 100644
--- a/web_programming/covid_stats_via_xpath.py
+++ b/web_programming/covid_stats_via_xpath.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 from collections import namedtuple
 
 import requests
-from lxml import html
+from lxml import html  # type: ignore
 
 covid_data = namedtuple("covid_data", "cases deaths recovered")