Not able to use async handler

[Chribati]

RunPod claims to support async handlers; however, when I define my handler function as async def, I receive the following warning

RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'handler' was never awaited

This suggests that RunPod is not properly awaiting the async handler, causing it to fail during execution.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Define an async handler function as documented:

import runpod
import asyncio

async def handler(job):
    await asyncio.sleep(1)  # Simulate async work
    return {"message": "Test Complete"}

if __name__ == '__main__':
    runpod.serverless.start({"handler": handler})

2. Deploy this code in RunPod (serverless environment) using docker.
3. Trigger the handler with a test input payload.

The warning coroutine 'handler' was never awaited appears in the logs.
The handler does not execute as expected.

• Python Version: 3.11
• Runpod latest
• Image built for --platform linux/amd64

I've also tried to trigger the handling function inside my handler using

asyncio.create_task

and this leads to me able to send requests and it works, however at this line of code, where I send multiple requests to an API as chunks, a asyncio.CancelError Exception gets thrown and the code exists with code 0

await asyncio.gather(*chunk, return_exceptions=True)

I think the event loop from runpod doesn't allow such a behavior?
If I could define the handler function as async, the problem would not appear!