Probably because everyone who dies of something resembling pneumonia is tested. In the first few days when they were hoping to track every infected case, they were testing everyone who was in contact with sick people, but at this point asymptomatic cases aren't tested anymore, there just isn't enough capacity. As tests are reserved to sicker and sicker people, fatality rate increases.

Anyway other countries such as Switzerland, Sweden or France aren't that behind in terms of cases per million people (Iceland was even ahead of Italy as of yesterday), perhaps 10 days or so. I don't feel like my region is particularly unlucky.