WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former Republican leader from Kentucky, who has been hospitalized for six weeks, said Monday that he would not be returning to the Senate this week as lawmakers work toward their August recess.

In a statement from his office, McConnell, 84, also said that he would not be at this Saturday’s Fancy Farm, an annual state political picnic that he has attended for more than four decades and is a must for politicians in Kentucky.

“I’m still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ orders,” McConnell said in the statement. “Unfortunately, that means I won’t be able to make it to Fancy Farm, Kentucky this Saturday.”

The statement from McConnell’s office also included a photo of him smiling broadly and seated in a chair propped up by a pillow alongside his wife, former labor and transportation secretary Elaine Chao.

In an accompanying statement, the office of the attending physician of Congress said that McConnell was continuing to recover from a fall at his home on Capitol Hill last month but that he was “not yet medically cleared” to leave the facility where he was being treated and return to the office.

The statement also said that physicians from the congressional unit visit with McConnell every day.