COVID-19 - Historical Stock Footage and Images

A huge collection of stock footage captured during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic, from the early stages of 2020 with its lockdowns and deserted cities, continuing over the next year or so with supermarket queues, people wearing masks and testing and vaccination centres.

The COVID-19 Stock Footage collection is available HERE.

Below is an overview of some of the content I have available for use, for anything from documentaries to news. It’s available in high-quality 4K UHD with often both editorial and commercial licenses and various levels of indemnity.

COVID-19 Stock Footage

This incredible low aerial reveal of the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool passes a COVID-19 Vaccination Hub. LINK

A coronavirus lateral flow test turning positive, these are available in video and timelapse.

Illegal graffiti appeared on a derelict building with ISOLATION painted onto a devil’s face.

The empty and deserted streets of Birmingham city centre during the covid lockdowns. There are lots of cities and towns with empty streets in the Covid Collection, Manchester, London, Birmingham, Burnley, Shrewsbury, Dudley, West Bromwich and many more. LINK

I even captured some in Tokyo, Japan. Busy streets full of people wearing face masks outside.

And trains and stations full of people, quietly and considerately wearing their face coverings.

Meanwhile, back in the UK, some of our tourist destinations were overwhelmed with visitors. Here’s an aerial video of Snowdon mountain, its summit crowded and with people queueing to reach it.

These scenes caused a fuss with some of the locals near some of our beauty spots, but were welcomed by others, as they gave a much-needed boost to our local communities and economy. It was great to see people getting a dose of fresh air.

Easy Jet planes sat idle on the runway at Gatwick Airport, as government restrictions made travel incredibly difficult for most.

Homeowners took it upon themselves to erect signs asking passers-by to stick to government and NHS guidelines.

Pubs and parks, governments and councils, decided to remove the possibility of sitting outdoors on a bench…

Cities like Birmingham continued to operate, but the mostly deserted streets became surreal places to film. Like something out of I Am Legend, the collection holds some truly remarkable footage.

Fortunately, the hospitals were not overrun by the pandemic. Quite the opposite, the hospitals I captured footage at were near empty. Ambulances were parked up and the car parks were almost completely without cars. Appointments were mass cancelled, many future patients left without care.

Early on in the pandemic, even McDonalds was closed.

Supermarkets strictly controlled numbers in the stores, creating huge lines of people outside as they waited for their chance to wander the one-way system to do their shopping.

Once inside the supermarket, the shelves were sometimes empty, as panic buying regularly cleared out sections of the store, starting with hand sanitiser, through toilet paper, and then on to many other product lines, as social media trends influenced our buying habits and fears. There are some incredibly unique shopping scenes within the collection.

The COVID-19 stock footage collection has over 200 unique and interesting clips that were captured during the pandemic.

Hopefully, I won’t be adding any more.

Use THIS LINK to see the collection, and secure a 20% new customer discount.