Opencart 3 Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in?

Question

PHP

opencart v 3.0.3.3

php v 7.4

on the checkout page, next to the payment methods (payment_method) I get the error

Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/.../public_html/catalog/model/extension/payment/ cod.php on line 6

line 6 in the file is

$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM " 
. DB_PREFIX . "zone_to_geo_zone WHERE geo_zone_id = '" 
. (int)$this->config->get('payment_cod_geo_zone_id') . "'
 AND country_id = '" . (int)$address['country_id'] . "' 
AND (zone_id = '" . (int)$address['zone_id'] . "' OR zone_id = '0')");