diff --git a/ci/run_tests.sh b/ci/run_tests.sh
index ef89403788abfd..584a5b2eefe6f6 100755
--- a/ci/run_tests.sh
+++ b/ci/run_tests.sh
@@ -5,17 +5,6 @@
 # https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1075
 export PYTHONHASHSEED=$(python -c 'import random; print(random.randint(1, 4294967295))')
 
-if [ -n "$LOCALE_OVERRIDE" ]; then
-    export LC_ALL="$LOCALE_OVERRIDE"
-    export LANG="$LOCALE_OVERRIDE"
-    PANDAS_LOCALE=`python -c 'import pandas; pandas.get_option("display.encoding")'`
-    if [[ "$LOCALE_OVERRIDE" != "$PANDAS_LOCALE" ]]; then
-        echo "pandas could not detect the locale. System locale: $LOCALE_OVERRIDE, pandas detected: $PANDAS_LOCALE"
-        # TODO Not really aborting the tests until https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/23923 is fixed
-        # exit 1
-    fi
-fi
-
 if [[ "not network" == *"$PATTERN"* ]]; then
     export http_proxy=http://1.2.3.4 https_proxy=http://1.2.3.4;
 fi
@@ -47,5 +36,5 @@ fi
 if [[ "$COVERAGE" && $? == 0 && "$TRAVIS_BRANCH" == "master" ]]; then
     echo "uploading coverage"
     echo "bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) -Z -c -F $TYPE -f $COVERAGE_FNAME"
-          bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) -Z -c -F $TYPE -f $COVERAGE_FNAME
+          bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) -Z -c -f $COVERAGE_FNAME
 fi