diff --git a/.github/workflows/pre_merge.yaml b/.github/workflows/pre_merge.yaml
index 25cc4ddbb2..89f70c98d7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pre_merge.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pre_merge.yaml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ jobs:
   Intense-Unit-Test:
     runs-on: [otx-gpu-a10g-1]
     container:
-      image: 219678651685.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ote-ci:11.7.1.2-devel-ubuntu20.04
+      image: "ubuntu:24.04"
     needs: Code-Quality-Checks
     timeout-minutes: 120
     strategy:
@@ -114,24 +114,6 @@ jobs:
           rm /tmp/requirements.txt
       - name: Run unit test
         run: tox -vv -e intense-unit-test-${{ matrix.tox-env }}
-      - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
-        run: |
-          # If the workflow is triggered from PR then it gets the commit id from the PR.
-          # else it uses the commit id of the latest commit. This is because the commit
-          # of the checked-out branch/commit does not exist in the tree as it is grafted.
-          # Also note: GitHub does not pass secrets to pipelines triggered from a fork.
-          # This means that upload will fail for PRs from forks.
-          if [ -n "${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}" ]
-          then
-            COMMIT_ID=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
-          else
-            COMMIT_ID=${{ github.sha }}
-          fi
-          # current version of codecov-action does not support uploading reports through the proxy
-          # so we use the latest version of codecov uploader binary
-          curl -Os https://uploader.codecov.io/latest/linux/codecov
-          chmod +x codecov
-          ./codecov -t ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }} --sha $COMMIT_ID -U $HTTP_PROXY -f .tox/coverage_intense-unit-test-${{ matrix.tox-env }}.xml -F ${{ matrix.tox-env }}
   Integration-Test:
     if: |
       github.event.pull_request.draft == false &&
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index abfb9a8869..5dcd4d68c8 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -60,12 +60,7 @@ deps =
     .[base,dev]
 commands =
     ; Run Unit-Test with coverage report.
-    pytest -m "intense" tests/unit \
-        --cov=otx \
-        --cov-report=xml:{toxworkdir}/coverage_{envname}.xml \
-        --cov-report=term-missing \
-        --cov-fail-under=0 \
-        {posargs}
+    pytest -m "intense" tests/unit {posargs}
 
 
 [testenv:integration-test-{all, action, classification, multi_cls_classification, multi_label_classification, hlabel_classification, detection, rotated_detection, keypoint_detection, instance_segmentation, semantic_segmentation, visual_prompting_all, visual_prompting, zero_shot_visual_prompting, anomaly, anomaly_classification, anomaly_detection, anomaly_segmentation, object_detection_3d}]