Senator Mitch McConnell says he is unable to return to US Senate yet

WASHINGTON – US Senator Mitch McConnell said he will not rejoin the Senate when it returns to work on July 13 because he is still recovering from a fall and from pneumonia.“As much as it frustrates me, this process takes time,” McConnell said in a statement on July 12, his first since he was hospitalised in June.“And on the advice of my doctors, I won’t be able to return to the Senate floor to vote quite yet.”He said that he suffered a fall in mid-June that left him briefly unconscious. While hospitalised, he developed pneumonia and was treated with antibiotics, according to a separate statement that McConnell’s office attributed to the attending physician. The physician was not identified.McConnell, 84, said he is now at a rehabilitation centre, which he did not name.He will focus on “phy