The continue statement ignores the rest of the loop and returns back to the top for the next iteration.

In your example count is 0 at the beginning. Since it is not equal to 5, the if statement is not executed and count is printed in incremented by one. When count finally reaches 5 after 5 iterations or the loop, the if statement is executed. Since the only instruction is continue, the print and increment are never executed: the rest of the loop body is ignored. After this point count always has a value of 5 and this state continues indefinitely.

It does not break the loop, the loop is still running forever, doing nothing.

count = 0

while count < 15:
  if count == 5:
    continue

  # The following is ignored after count == 4
  print(count)
  count += 1