The veteran Republican says he will not return to work "quite yet", in his first statement following weeks of speculation about his health.
The US Republican senator has been absent from Congress during a weeks-long hospitalisation, spurring party concern.
US Senator Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalisation, breaking the silence about his condition after weeks of mounting speculation about the Kentucky Republican’s health. McConnell, 84, said in a statement that he has undergone a battery of tests as doctors try to determine what led to his fall. He explained the long silence about his condition by saying that “folks of my generation often hesitate to share the vulnerability that comes with...
Doctors attributed the ailment to a combination of viral fever and physical exhaustion from sustained activity