I've also run into this issue (see https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2015-July/693496.html and the following thread). I'm adding some small examples showing the behavior.

import asyncio

async def wait():
    await asyncio.sleep(5)

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(wait())

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The following even smaller example by Terry Reedy and the OP from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27480967/why-does-the-asyncios-event-loop-suppress-the-keyboardinterrupt-on-windows cannot be interrupted other way then shuting down whole process:

asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()

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It would be nice the patch mentioned was eventually applied.