Async producer/consumer running serially

I’m getting started with asyncio and created this:

import asyncio

async def handle_data(q):
    while (item := await q.get()) is not None:
        print(f'Consuming {item}')

async def main():
    q = asyncio.Queue()
    consumer = asyncio.create_task(handle_data(q))

    for k in range(10):
        print(f'Producing {k}')
        await q.put(k)

    await q.put(None)
    await consumer

asyncio.run(main())

The script outputs

Producing 0
Producing 1
Producing 2
Producing 3
Producing 4
Producing 5
Producing 6
Producing 7
Producing 8
Producing 9
Consuming 0
Consuming 1
Consuming 2
Consuming 3
Consuming 4
Consuming 5
Consuming 6
Consuming 7
Consuming 8
Consuming 9

Why is the code running synchronously?

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